Color

#dda50e

#dda50e
hex#dda50e
rgbrgb(221, 165, 14)
hslhsl(44, 88%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.754 0.153 83.6)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4231

Colors that go with #dda50e

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 #dda50e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e45dd

#dd3e0e · #acdd0e

#0edda5 · #a50edd

Split-complementary

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#0eacdd · #3e0edd

#0edd3e · #0e45dd · #dd0eac

Contrast

#dda50e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.22:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #957009 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #6e5307 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.26:1)
Aaon black
9.46:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dda50e 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

#dda50e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dda50e
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 #dda50e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dda50e-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md