Color

#aa9950

#aa9950
hex#aa9950
rgbrgb(170, 153, 80)
hslhsl(49, 36%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.096 96.5)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3191

Colors that go with #aa9950

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 #aa9950

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5060aa

#aa6c50 · #8daa50

#50aa99 · #9950aa

Split-complementary

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#508daa · #6c50aa

#50aa6c · #5060aa · #aa508d

Contrast

#aa9950 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80743c as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #61582e as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.38:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa9950 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

#aa9950 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9950
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 #aa9950 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9950-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md