Color

#aa8855

#aa8855
hex#aa8855
rgbrgb(170, 136, 85)
hslhsl(36, 33%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.647 0.08 76.7)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2681

Colors that go with #aa8855

Cadet Blue, Cornflower 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 #aa8855

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5577aa

#aa5e55 · #a1aa55

#55aa88 · #8855aa

Split-complementary

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#55a1aa · #5e55aa

#55aa5e · #5577aa · #aa55a1

Contrast

#aa8855 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8e7248 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #695435 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.36:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b09163 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8855 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aa8855 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8855
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 #aa8855 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8855-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md