Color

#cdc99d

#cdc99d
hex#cdc99d
rgbrgb(205, 201, 157)
hslhsl(55, 32%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.828 0.059 103.3)
Closest name: Ancestral Gold (#ddcda6)Relative luminance 0.5719

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9da1cd

#cdb19d · #b9cd9d

#9dcdc9 · #c99dcd

Split-complementary

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#9db9cd · #b19dcd

#9dcdb1 · #9da1cd · #cd9db9

Contrast

#cdc99d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7840 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5a31 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #525252 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #363636 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
12.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cdc99d 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

#cdc99d reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdc99d
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 #cdc99d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cdc99d-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md