Color

#ddc697

#ddc697
hex#ddc697
rgbrgb(221, 198, 151)
hslhsl(40, 51%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.834 0.067 84.8)
Closest name: Ancestral Gold (#ddcda6)Relative luminance 0.5799

Tints & shades

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Harmonies

Complementary

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#97aedd

#dda397 · #d2dd97

#97ddc6 · #c697dd

Split-complementary

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#97d2dd · #a397dd

#97dda3 · #97aedd · #dd97d2

Contrast

#ddc697 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #92712f as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5423 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
12.6:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddc697 as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ddc697 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddc697
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 #ddc697 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddc697-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md