Color

#aa9874

#aa9874
hex#aa9874
rgbrgb(170, 152, 116)
hslhsl(40, 24%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.686 0.054 84.4)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3226

Colors that go with #aa9874

Charcoal, 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 #aa9874

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7486aa

#aa7d74 · #a1aa74

#74aa98 · #9874aa

Split-complementary

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#74a1aa · #7d74aa

#74aa7d · #7486aa · #aa74a1

Contrast

#aa9874 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #857451 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #62553c as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.45:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa9874 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

#aa9874 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9874
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 #aa9874 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9874-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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