Color

#ffb300

#ffb300
hex#ffb300
rgbrgb(255, 179, 0)
hslhsl(42, 100%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.818 0.171 77.9)
Closest name: Baklava (#efb435)Relative luminance 0.535

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#004cff

#ff3300 · #ccff00

#00ffb3 · #b300ff

Split-complementary

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#00ccff · #3300ff

#00ff33 · #004cff · #ff00cc

Contrast

#ffb300 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #996b00 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #755200 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4f4f4f (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #333333 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
11.7:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ffb300 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ffb300 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ffb300
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 #ffb300 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ffb300-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md