Color

#ddc422

#ddc422
hex#ddc422
rgbrgb(221, 196, 34)
hslhsl(52, 73%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.817 0.163 99.5)
Closest name: Aurora (#ebd147)Relative luminance 0.5497

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#223bdd

#dd6722 · #98dd22

#22ddc4 · #c422dd

Split-complementary

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#2298dd · #6722dd

#22dd67 · #223bdd · #dd2298

Contrast

#ddc422 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847515 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #61560f as the text (7.38:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.22:1)
Aaon black
11.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddc422 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

#ddc422 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddc422
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 #ddc422 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddc422-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md