Color

#aa9055

#aa9055
hex#aa9055
rgbrgb(170, 144, 85)
hslhsl(42, 33%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.084 86.4)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2915

Colors that go with #aa9055

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #aa9055

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#556faa

#aa6655 · #99aa55

#55aa90 · #9055aa

Split-complementary

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#5599aa · #6655aa

#55aa66 · #556faa · #aa5599

Contrast

#aa9055 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #887344 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #665733 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.83:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab9359 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 #aa9055 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aa9055 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9055
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 #aa9055 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9055-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md