Color

#cda018

#cda018
hex#cda018
rgbrgb(205, 160, 24)
hslhsl(45, 79%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.728 0.144 87.5)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.3819

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1845cd

#cd4518 · #a0cd18

#18cda0 · #a018cd

Split-complementary

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#18a0cd · #4518cd

#18cd45 · #1845cd · #cd18a0

Contrast

#cda018 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #927211 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6e550d as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cda018 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

#cda018 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cda018
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 #cda018 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cda018-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md