Color

#aa8818

#aa8818
hex#aa8818
rgbrgb(170, 136, 24)
hslhsl(46, 75%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.641 0.125 89.9)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2622

Colors that go with #aa8818

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #aa8818

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#183aaa

#aa3f18 · #83aa18

#18aa88 · #8818aa

Split-complementary

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#1883aa · #3f18aa

#18aa3f · #183aaa · #aa1883

Contrast

#aa8818 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.36:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8f7214 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #6b560f as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.24:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b7921a as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8818 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

#aa8818 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8818
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 #aa8818 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8818-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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