Color

#aa8d5a

#aa8d5a
hex#aa8d5a
rgbrgb(170, 141, 90)
hslhsl(38, 32%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.658 0.077 80.9)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2833

Colors that go with #aa8d5a

Cadet Blue, Cornflower Blue and Burlywood 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 #aa8d5a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5a77aa

#aa655a · #9faa5a

#5aaa8d · #8d5aaa

Split-complementary

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#5a9faa · #655aaa

#5aaa65 · #5a77aa · #aa5a9f

Contrast

#aa8d5a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.15:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8a7147 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #685636 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.67:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae9161 as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8d5a as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aa8d5a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8d5a
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 #aa8d5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8d5a-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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