Color

#dda01d

#dda01d
hex#dda01d
rgbrgb(221, 160, 29)
hslhsl(41, 77%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.148 79.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.406

Colors that go with #dda01d

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Deep 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 #dda01d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1d5add

#dd401d · #badd1d

#1ddda0 · #a01ddd

Split-complementary

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#1dbadd · #401ddd

#1ddd40 · #1d5add · #dd1dba

Contrast

#dda01d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996f14 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #71520f as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dda01d as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#dda01d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dda01d
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 #dda01d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dda01d-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md