Color

#aa8a18

#aa8a18
hex#aa8a18
rgbrgb(170, 138, 24)
hslhsl(47, 75%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.645 0.126 91.3)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2679

Colors that go with #aa8a18

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 #aa8a18

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1838aa

#aa4118 · #80aa18

#18aa8a · #8a18aa

Split-complementary

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#1880aa · #4118aa

#18aa41 · #1838aa · #aa1880

Contrast

#aa8a18 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8a7114 as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #6b570f as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.36:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b7951a as the text (7.33:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8a18 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

#aa8a18 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8a18
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 #aa8a18 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8a18-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md