Color

#aa8a31

#aa8a31
hex#aa8a31
rgbrgb(170, 138, 49)
hslhsl(44, 55%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.647 0.112 88.7)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2694

Colors that go with #aa8a31

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 #aa8a31

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3152aa

#aa4d31 · #8eaa31

#31aa8a · #8a31aa

Split-complementary

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#318eaa · #4d31aa

#31aa4d · #3152aa · #aa318e

Contrast

#aa8a31 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.29:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8e7329 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #67531e as the text (7.41:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.39:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b69335 as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8a31 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

#aa8a31 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8a31
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 #aa8a31 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8a31-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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