Color

#cc9900

#cc9900
hex#cc9900
rgbrgb(204, 153, 0)
hslhsl(45, 100%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.712 0.146 84.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3562

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0033cc

#cc3300 · #99cc00

#00cc99 · #9900cc

Split-complementary

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#0099cc · #3300cc

#00cc33 · #0033cc · #cc0099

Contrast

#cc9900 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #946f00 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #705400 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cc9900 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#cc9900 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cc9900
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #cc9900 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cc9900-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md