Color

#dcd156

#dcd156
hex#dcd156
rgbrgb(220, 209, 86)
hslhsl(55, 66%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.847 0.143 104.2)
Closest name: Aurora (#ebd147)Relative luminance 0.6149

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5661dc

#dc8e56 · #a4dc56

#56dcd1 · #d156dc

Split-complementary

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#56a4dc · #8e56dc

#56dc8e · #5661dc · #dc56a4

Contrast

#dcd156 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.58:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f771a as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5713 as the text (7.4:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #575757 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (7.09:1)
Aaon black
13.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dcd156 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

#dcd156 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dcd156
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 #dcd156 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dcd156-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md