Color

#ddd231

#ddd231
hex#ddd231
rgbrgb(221, 210, 49)
hslhsl(56, 72%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.847 0.168 105.3)
Closest name: Banana Brick (#e8d82c)Relative luminance 0.6169

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#313cdd

#dd7c31 · #93dd31

#31ddd2 · #d231dd

Split-complementary

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#3193dd · #7c31dd

#31dd7c · #313cdd · #dd3193

Contrast

#ddd231 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.57:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7815 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5c570f as the text (7.43:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #575757 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (7.11:1)
Aaon black
13.34:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ddd231 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

#ddd231 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ddd231
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 #ddd231 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ddd231-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md