Color

#ddc255

#ddc255
hex#ddc255
rgbrgb(221, 194, 85)
hslhsl(48, 67%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.816 0.131 95.4)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.5461

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5570dd

#dd7e55 · #b4dd55

#55ddc2 · #c255dd

Split-complementary

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#55b4dd · #7e55dd

#55dd7e · #5570dd · #dd55b4

Contrast

#ddc255 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #88721b as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #665614 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
11.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddc255 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

#ddc255 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddc255
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 #ddc255 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddc255-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md