Color

#aa5c55

#aa5c55
hex#aa5c55
rgbrgb(170, 92, 85)
hslhsl(5, 33%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.564 0.103 26.2)
Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.1686

Colors that go with #aa5c55

Sea Green, Teal and Amber 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#55a3aa

#aa5578 · #aa8755

#55aa5c · #5c55aa

Split-complementary

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#55aa87 · #5578aa

#78aa55 · #55a3aa · #8755aa

Contrast

#aa5c55 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #844843 as the text (7.03:1)
Aaon black
4.37:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ab6059 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #c08782 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa5c55 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

#aa5c55 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa5c55
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #aa5c55 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa5c55-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md