Color

#df9f16

#df9f16
hex#df9f16
rgbrgb(223, 159, 22)
hslhsl(41, 82%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.151 78.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4054

Colors that go with #df9f16

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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 #df9f16

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1656df

#df3b16 · #badf16

#16df9f · #9f16df

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#16badf · #3b16df

#16df3b · #1656df · #df16ba

Contrast

#df9f16 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996d0f as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #74530b as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.15:1)
Aaon black
9.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #df9f16 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

#df9f16 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #df9f16
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 #df9f16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/df9f16-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md