Color

#ddb278

#ddb278
hex#ddb278
rgbrgb(221, 178, 120)
hslhsl(34, 60%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.789 0.09 74.2)
Closest name: burlywood (#deb887)Relative luminance 0.4857

Colors that go with #ddb278

Charcoal, Sky Blue and Cadet 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.

Real palettes that use #ddb278

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#78a4dd

#dd7f78 · #d7dd78

#78ddb2 · #b278dd

Split-complementary

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#78d7dd · #7f78dd

#78dd7f · #78a4dd · #dd78d7

Contrast

#ddb278 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9f6b28 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #76501e as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.22:1)
Aaon black
10.71:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddb278 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

#ddb278 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddb278
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 #ddb278 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddb278-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md