Color

#aa8a46

#aa8a46
hex#aa8a46
rgbrgb(170, 138, 70)
hslhsl(41, 42%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.649 0.095 84.4)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2717

Colors that go with #aa8a46

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 #aa8a46

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4665aa

#aa5846 · #98aa46

#46aa8a · #8a46aa

Split-complementary

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#4698aa · #5846aa

#46aa58 · #4665aa · #aa4698

Contrast

#aa8a46 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d733a as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #69552b as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.43:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b5934a as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8a46 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#aa8a46 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8a46
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 #aa8a46 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8a46-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md