Color

#cda551

#cda551
hex#cda551
rgbrgb(205, 165, 81)
hslhsl(41, 55%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.742 0.113 83.9)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4048

Colors that go with #cda551

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blush Pink 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 #cda551

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5178cd

#cd6851 · #b6cd51

#51cda5 · #a551cd

Split-complementary

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#51b6cd · #6851cd

#51cd68 · #5178cd · #cd51b6

Contrast

#cda551 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #92712a as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #6b531f as the text (7.29:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cda551 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

#cda551 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cda551
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 #cda551 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cda551-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md