Color
#a9ae09
#a9ae09rgb(169, 174, 9)hsl(62, 90%, 36%)oklch(0.723 0.158 111.8)Colors that go with #a9ae09
Cornflower Blue, Blue and Champagne lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #a9ae09 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Minecraft's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #a9ae09, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #a9ae09, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a9ae09 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a9ae09: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a9ae09: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a9ae09 in 4 real palettes, including Disney's brand system and Chevrolet's brand system, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a9ae09: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a9ae09
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9ae09 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.75:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a9ae09 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a9ae09 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a9ae09-babea2-4e8fdf-272d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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