Color

#de9517

#de9517
hex#de9517
rgbrgb(222, 149, 23)
hslhsl(38, 81%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.15 73)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3709

Colors that go with #de9517

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky Blue lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.

Real palettes that use #de9517

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1760de

#de3217 · #c3de17

#17de95 · #9517de

Split-complementary

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#17c3de · #3217de

#17de32 · #1760de · #de17c3

Contrast

#de9517 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.49:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6910 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #78510d as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.19:1)
Aaon black
8.42:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #de9517 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#de9517 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #de9517
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #de9517 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/de9517-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md