Color

#aa8d50

#aa8d50
hex#aa8d50
rgbrgb(170, 141, 80)
hslhsl(41, 36%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.657 0.087 84.6)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2817

Colors that go with #aa8d50

Charcoal, 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 #aa8d50

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#506caa

#aa6050 · #99aa50

#50aa8d · #8d50aa

Split-complementary

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#5099aa · #6050aa

#50aa60 · #506caa · #aa5099

Contrast

#aa8d50 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b7341 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #685731 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.63:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #af9355 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8d50 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aa8d50 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8d50
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 #aa8d50 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8d50-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md