Color

#aa8946

#aa8946
hex#aa8946
rgbrgb(170, 137, 70)
hslhsl(40, 42%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.647 0.095 83.3)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2688

Colors that go with #aa8946

Blush Pink, Cadet Blue 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 #aa8946

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4667aa

#aa5646 · #99aa46

#46aa89 · #8946aa

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#4699aa · #5646aa

#46aa56 · #4667aa · #aa4699

Contrast

#aa8946 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.29:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d713a as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #69542b as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.38:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b5914a as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8946 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#aa8946 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8946
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 #aa8946 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8946-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md