Color

#ddb255

#ddb255
hex#ddb255
rgbrgb(221, 178, 85)
hslhsl(41, 67%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.784 0.122 84.4)
Closest name: Artisans Gold (#f2ab46)Relative luminance 0.4787

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5580dd

#dd6e55 · #c4dd55

#55ddb2 · #b255dd

Split-complementary

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#55c4dd · #6e55dd

#55dd6e · #5580dd · #dd55c4

Contrast

#ddb255 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.99:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #956f1d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #6f5316 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.13:1)
Aaon black
10.57:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddb255 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#ddb255 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddb255
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 #ddb255 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddb255-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md