Color

#ddae40

#ddae40
hex#ddae40
rgbrgb(221, 174, 64)
hslhsl(42, 70%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.774 0.135 85)
Closest name: goldenrod (#daa520)Relative luminance 0.4601

Colors that go with #ddae40

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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#406fdd

#dd6040 · #bedd40

#40ddae · #ae40dd

Split-complementary

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#40bedd · #6040dd

#40dd60 · #406fdd · #dd40be

Contrast

#ddae40 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.06:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #936f1a as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5213 as the text (7.36:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #292929 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
10.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddae40 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ddae40 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddae40
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 #ddae40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddae40-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md