Color

#ddd040

#ddd040
hex#ddd040
rgbrgb(221, 208, 64)
hslhsl(55, 70%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.844 0.158 104.1)
Closest name: Aurora (#ebd147)Relative luminance 0.6085

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#404ddd

#dd8240 · #9cdd40

#40ddd0 · #d040dd

Split-complementary

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#409cdd · #8240dd

#40dd82 · #404ddd · #dd409c

Contrast

#ddd040 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7516 as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5911 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #575757 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (7.03:1)
Aaon black
13.17:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddd040 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

#ddd040 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddd040
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 #ddd040 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddd040-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md