Color

#cdc40e

#cdc40e
hex#cdc40e
rgbrgb(205, 196, 14)
hslhsl(57, 87%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.169 106.3)
Closest name: Celery (#b4c04c)Relative luminance 0.5249

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e18cd

#cd640e · #77cd0e

#0ecdc4 · #c40ecd

Split-complementary

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#0e77cd · #640ecd

#0ecd64 · #0e18cd · #cd0e77

Contrast

#cdc40e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7609 as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5b07 as the text (7.03:1)
  • 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 #cdc40e 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

#cdc40e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdc40e
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 #cdc40e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cdc40e-bcbea2-4e9bdf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md