Color

#aa8a4b

#aa8a4b
hex#aa8a4b
rgbrgb(170, 138, 75)
hslhsl(40, 39%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.65 0.09 82.9)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2723

Colors that go with #aa8a4b

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 #aa8a4b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4b6aaa

#aa5b4b · #9aaa4b

#4baa8a · #8a4baa

Split-complementary

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#4b9aaa · #5b4baa

#4baa5b · #4b6aaa · #aa4b9a

Contrast

#aa8a4b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8a703d as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #6a562f as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.45:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b39251 as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8a4b as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aa8a4b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8a4b
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 #aa8a4b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8a4b-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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