Color

#ddb308

#ddb308
hex#ddb308
rgbrgb(221, 179, 8)
hslhsl(48, 93%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.782 0.159 91.6)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.4763

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0833dd

#dd4808 · #9ddd08

#08ddb3 · #b308dd

Split-complementary

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#089ddd · #4808dd

#08dd48 · #0833dd · #dd089d

Contrast

#ddb308 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8f7305 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #675304 as the text (7.46:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.1:1)
Aaon black
10.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddb308 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

#ddb308 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddb308
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 #ddb308 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddb308-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md