Color

#aa8b2c

#aa8b2c
hex#aa8b2c
rgbrgb(170, 139, 44)
hslhsl(45, 59%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.649 0.116 90.2)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2719

Colors that go with #aa8b2c

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 #aa8b2c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2c4caa

#aa4c2c · #8baa2c

#2caa8b · #8b2caa

Split-complementary

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#2c8baa · #4c2caa

#2caa4c · #2c4caa · #aa2c8b

Contrast

#aa8b2c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.26:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8a7024 as the text (4.75:1)
  • AAA: use #69561b as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.44:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b6952f 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 #aa8b2c 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

#aa8b2c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8b2c
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 #aa8b2c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8b2c-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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