Color

#aa9831

#aa9831
hex#aa9831
rgbrgb(170, 152, 49)
hslhsl(51, 55%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.677 0.122 99.1)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3122

Colors that go with #aa9831

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 #aa9831

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3143aa

#aa5c31 · #80aa31

#31aa98 · #9831aa

Split-complementary

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#3180aa · #5c31aa

#31aa5c · #3143aa · #aa3180

Contrast

#aa9831 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827526 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #63581d as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.24:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #aa9831 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

#aa9831 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9831
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 #aa9831 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9831-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md