Color

#dda22c

#dda22c
hex#dda22c
rgbrgb(221, 162, 44)
hslhsl(40, 72%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.75 0.143 79.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4139

Colors that go with #dda22c

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 #dda22c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2c67dd

#dd4a2c · #bfdd2c

#2cdda2 · #a22cdd

Split-complementary

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#2cbfdd · #4a2cdd

#2cdd4a · #2c67dd · #dd2cbf

Contrast

#dda22c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9a6f19 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #725213 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.28:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dda22c 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

#dda22c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dda22c
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 #dda22c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dda22c-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md