Color

#ddcb40

#ddcb40
hex#ddcb40
rgbrgb(221, 203, 64)
hslhsl(53, 70%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.833 0.154 101.8)
Closest name: Aurora (#ebd147)Relative luminance 0.5845

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4053dd

#dd7c40 · #a1dd40

#40ddcb · #cb40dd

Split-complementary

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#40a1dd · #7c40dd

#40dd7c · #4053dd · #dd40a1

Contrast

#ddcb40 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827617 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5611 as the text (7.43:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #545454 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #383838 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
12.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddcb40 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

#ddcb40 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddcb40
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 #ddcb40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddcb40-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md