Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#ddb14b
#ddb14b
hex
#ddb14brgb
rgb(221, 177, 75)hsl
hsl(42, 68%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.781 0.129 85.4)Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.4732
Colors that go with #ddb14b
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Light 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ddb14b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #ddb14b: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Light Sky Blue #87cefa
complementaryshippedLight Sky Blue sits directly opposite #ddb14b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ddb14b: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #ddb14b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ddb14b: 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #ddb14b: 6 real palettes, including Gopro's brand system and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ddb14b in 10 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Tequila Sunrise, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ddb14b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ddb14b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.01:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.46:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ddb14b as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#ddb14b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddb14b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ddb14b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ddb14b-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md