Color

#aa8a22

#aa8a22
hex#aa8a22
rgbrgb(170, 138, 34)
hslhsl(46, 67%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.646 0.121 90.5)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2684

Colors that go with #aa8a22

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 #aa8a22

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2242aa

#aa4622 · #86aa22

#22aa8a · #8a22aa

Split-complementary

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#2286aa · #4622aa

#22aa46 · #2242aa · #aa2286

Contrast

#aa8a22 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d721c as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #6a5715 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.37:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b79524 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 #aa8a22 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

#aa8a22 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8a22
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 #aa8a22 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8a22-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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