Color

#cda751

#cda751
hex#cda751
rgbrgb(205, 167, 81)
hslhsl(42, 55%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.746 0.114 85.5)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4121

Colors that go with #cda751

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep Sky Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5176cd

#cd6a51 · #b4cd51

#51cda7 · #a751cd

Split-complementary

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#51b4cd · #6a51cd

#51cd6a · #5176cd · #cd51b4

Contrast

#cda751 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e7029 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #6b541f as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
9.24:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cda751 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#cda751 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cda751
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 #cda751 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cda751-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md