Color

#aa8374

#aa8374
hex#aa8374
rgbrgb(170, 131, 116)
hslhsl(17, 24%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.643 0.053 42)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2604

Colors that go with #aa8374

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #aa8374

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#749aaa

#aa7480 · #aa9e74

#74aa83 · #8374aa

Split-complementary

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#74aa9e · #7480aa

#80aa74 · #749aaa · #9e74aa

Contrast

#aa8374 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.38:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #956b5b as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6f5044 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.21:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b18e81 as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8374 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

#aa8374 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8374
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 #aa8374 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8374-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md