Color

#ddae22

#ddae22
hex#ddae22
rgbrgb(221, 174, 34)
hslhsl(45, 73%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.773 0.15 87.9)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4576

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2251dd

#dd5122 · #aedd22

#22ddae · #ae22dd

Split-complementary

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#22aedd · #5122dd

#22dd51 · #2251dd · #dd22ae

Contrast

#ddae22 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.07:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d6f16 as the text (4.75:1)
  • AAA: use #6a5411 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
10.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddae22 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

#ddae22 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddae22
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ddae22 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddae22-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md