Color

#aa8909

#aa8909
hex#aa8909
rgbrgb(170, 137, 9)
hslhsl(48, 90%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.643 0.13 91.3)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2646

Colors that go with #aa8909

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 #aa8909

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#0929aa

#aa3909 · #79aa09

#09aa89 · #8909aa

Split-complementary

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#0979aa · #3909aa

#09aa39 · #0929aa · #aa0979

Contrast

#aa8909 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.34:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d7207 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5606 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.29:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b8950a as the text (7.34:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8909 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

#aa8909 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8909
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 #aa8909 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8909-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md