Color

#dea43f

#dea43f
hex#dea43f
rgbrgb(222, 164, 63)
hslhsl(38, 71%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.756 0.133 77.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4244

Colors that go with #dea43f

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Cadet 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 #dea43f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#3f7ade

#de543f · #c9de3f

#3fdea4 · #a43fde

Split-complementary

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#3fc9de · #543fde

#3fde54 · #3f7ade · #de3fc9

Contrast

#dea43f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9d6d1b as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #765214 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.49:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dea43f 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

#dea43f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dea43f
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 #dea43f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dea43f-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md