Color

#dea959

#dea959
hex#dea959
rgbrgb(222, 169, 89)
hslhsl(36, 67%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.116 75.8)
Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.4463

Colors that go with #dea959

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Light 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

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#598ede

#de6659 · #d1de59

#59dea9 · #a959de

Split-complementary

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#59d1de · #6659de

#59de66 · #598ede · #de59d1

Contrast

#dea959 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.12:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9e6b1f as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #775118 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dea959 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#dea959 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dea959
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 #dea959 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dea959-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md