Color

#ccc42e

#ccc42e
hex#ccc42e
rgbrgb(204, 196, 46)
hslhsl(57, 63%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.159 106.3)
Closest name: Celery (#b4c04c)Relative luminance 0.5251

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e36cc

#cc752e · #85cc2e

#2eccc4 · #c42ecc

Split-complementary

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#2e85cc · #752ecc

#2ecc75 · #2e36cc · #cc2e85

Contrast

#ccc42e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d781c as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5815 as the text (7.36:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
11.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ccc42e 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

#ccc42e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ccc42e
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 #ccc42e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ccc42e-bcbea2-4e9bdf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md