Color

#cddd97

#cddd97
hex#cddd97
rgbrgb(205, 221, 151)
hslhsl(74, 51%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.869 0.093 118.8)
Closest name: Basil Smash (#b7e1a1)Relative luminance 0.6693

Colors that go with #cddd97

Charcoal, Lilac and 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.

Real palettes that use #cddd97

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a797dd

#ddcb97 · #aadd97

#97cddd · #dd97cd

Split-complementary

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#97aadd · #cb97dd

#97ddcb · #a797dd · #dd97aa

Contrast

#cddd97 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #687b28 as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #4e5c1e as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #5c5c5c (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #404040 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
14.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #cddd97 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

#cddd97 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #cddd97
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 #cddd97 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/cddd97-b4bea2-4e72df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md