Color

#aa8d0e

#aa8d0e
hex#aa8d0e
rgbrgb(170, 141, 14)
hslhsl(49, 85%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.651 0.131 93.9)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2763

Colors that go with #aa8d0e

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 #aa8d0e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e2aaa

#aa3f0e · #78aa0e

#0eaa8d · #8d0eaa

Split-complementary

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#0e78aa · #3f0eaa

#0eaa3f · #0e2aaa · #aa0e78

Contrast

#aa8d0e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.22:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #89720b as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #685608 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.53:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b3950f as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8d0e 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

#aa8d0e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8d0e
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 #aa8d0e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8d0e-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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