Color

#de9612

#de9612
hex#de9612
rgbrgb(222, 150, 18)
hslhsl(39, 85%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.727 0.151 74)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3739

Colors that go with #de9612

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1259de

#de3112 · #bfde12

#12de96 · #9612de

Split-complementary

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#12bfde · #3112de

#12de31 · #1259de · #de12bf

Contrast

#de9612 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.48:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9c6a0d as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #76500a as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.48:1passpasspassPasses 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 #de9612 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

#de9612 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #de9612
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 #de9612 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/de9612-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md