Color

#dda43c

#dda43c
hex#dda43c
rgbrgb(221, 164, 60)
hslhsl(39, 70%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.755 0.135 78.8)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4225

Colors that go with #dda43c

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 #dda43c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3c74dd

#dd543c · #c4dd3c

#3cdda4 · #a43cdd

Split-complementary

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#3cc4dd · #543cdd

#3cdd54 · #3c74dd · #dd3cc4

Contrast

#dda43c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #986c1b as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #715014 as the text (7.34:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.25:1)
Aaon black
9.45:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dda43c 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

#dda43c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dda43c
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 #dda43c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dda43c-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md