Color

#dda222

#dda222
hex#dda222
rgbrgb(221, 162, 34)
hslhsl(41, 73%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.749 0.147 80.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4133

Colors that go with #dda222

Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and 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 #dda222

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#225ddd

#dd4522 · #badd22

#22dda2 · #a222dd

Split-complementary

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#22badd · #4522dd

#22dd45 · #225ddd · #dd22ba

Contrast

#dda222 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966e17 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6e5111 as the text (7.37:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
9.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dda222 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

#dda222 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dda222
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 #dda222 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dda222-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md