Color

#dea517

#dea517
hex#dea517
rgbrgb(222, 165, 23)
hslhsl(43, 81%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.756 0.151 82.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.425

Colors that go with #dea517

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 #dea517

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#174fde

#de4217 · #b3de17

#17dea5 · #a517de

Split-complementary

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#17b3de · #4217de

#17de42 · #174fde · #de17b3

Contrast

#dea517 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946e10 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #6f530c as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
9.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dea517 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

#dea517 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dea517
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 #dea517 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dea517-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md