Color

#aa901d

#aa901d
hex#aa901d
rgbrgb(170, 144, 29)
hslhsl(49, 71%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.658 0.127 95.1)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.2858

Colors that go with #aa901d

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 #aa901d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1d37aa

#aa4a1d · #7daa1d

#1daa90 · #901daa

Split-complementary

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#1d7daa · #4a1daa

#1daa4a · #1d37aa · #aa1d7d

Contrast

#aa901d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.13:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #877317 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #645511 as the text (7.37:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.53:1)
Aaon black
6.72:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae941e as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa901d 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

#aa901d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa901d
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 #aa901d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa901d-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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