Color

#aa8f74

#aa8f74
hex#aa8f74
rgbrgb(170, 143, 116)
hslhsl(30, 24%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.05 66.8)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2945

Colors that go with #aa8f74

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blush Pink 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 #aa8f74

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#748faa

#aa7474 · #aaaa74

#74aa8f · #8f74aa

Split-complementary

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#74aaaa · #7474aa

#74aa74 · #748faa · #aa74aa

Contrast

#aa8f74 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.05:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b7055 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #685440 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.89:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ac9177 as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa8f74 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aa8f74 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa8f74
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 #aa8f74 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa8f74-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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