Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#aa3731
#aa3731
hex
#aa3731rgb
rgb(170, 55, 49)hsl
hsl(3, 55%, 43%)oklch
oklch(0.504 0.152 27)Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.115
Colors that go with #aa3731
Royal Blue, Sea Green and Teal 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #aa3731 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #aa3731 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #aa3731 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #aa3731, as the text colour against it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #aa3731 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aa3731: 9 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #aa3731 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #aa3731: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #aa3731
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aa3731 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.36:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.3:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa3731 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Fonts for this mood
#aa3731 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa3731
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #aa3731 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aa3731-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md