Color

#cdcd42

#cdcd42
hex#cdcd42
rgbrgb(205, 205, 66)
hslhsl(60, 58%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.824 0.156 109.4)
Closest name: Bitter Lemon (#d2db32)Relative luminance 0.5704

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4242cd

#cd8742 · #87cd42

#42cdcd · #cd42cd

Split-complementary

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#4287cd · #8742cd

#42cd87 · #4242cd · #cd4287

Contrast

#cdcd42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797920 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #595918 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #525252 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #363636 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
12.41:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cdcd42 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cdcd42
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 #cdcd42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cdcd42-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md