Color

#dda82c

#dda82c
hex#dda82c
rgbrgb(221, 168, 44)
hslhsl(42, 72%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.761 0.144 83.4)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4356

Colors that go with #dda82c

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2c61dd

#dd502c · #b9dd2c

#2cdda8 · #a82cdd

Split-complementary

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#2cb9dd · #502cdd

#2cdd50 · #2c61dd · #dd2cb9

Contrast

#dda82c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.16:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #957018 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #6e5212 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
9.71:1passpasspassPasses 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 #dda82c 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

#dda82c reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #dda82c
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 #dda82c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/dda82c-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md