Color

#aa8255

#aa8255
hex#aa8255
rgbrgb(170, 130, 85)
hslhsl(32, 33%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.635 0.078 68.9)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2517

Colors that go with #aa8255

Cadet Blue, Blush Pink 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.

Real palettes that use #aa8255

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#557daa

#aa5855 · #a7aa55

#55aa82 · #8255aa

Split-complementary

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#55a7aa · #5855aa

#55aa58 · #557daa · #aa55a7

Contrast

#aa8255 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.48:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #927049 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5337 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.63:1)
Aaon black
6.03:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b28f66 as the text (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8255 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

#aa8255 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8255
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 #aa8255 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8255-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md