Color

#cd990a

#cd990a
hex#cd990a
rgbrgb(205, 153, 10)
hslhsl(44, 91%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.145 83.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3578

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0a3ecd

#cd370a · #9fcd0a

#0acd99 · #990acd

Split-complementary

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#0a9fcd · #370acd

#0acd37 · #0a3ecd · #cd0a9f

Contrast

#cd990a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #926d07 as the text (4.76:1)
  • AAA: use #705405 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.16:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cd990a 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

#cd990a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cd990a
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 #cd990a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cd990a-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md