Color

#aa9d46

#aa9d46
hex#aa9d46
rgbrgb(170, 157, 70)
hslhsl(52, 42%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.69 0.109 100.9)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.331

Colors that go with #aa9d46

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4653aa

#aa6a46 · #85aa46

#46aa9d · #9d46aa

Split-complementary

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#4685aa · #6a46aa

#46aa6a · #4653aa · #aa4685

Contrast

#aa9d46 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7534 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5726 as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.62:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa9d46 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

#aa9d46 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aa9d46
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 #aa9d46 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa9d46-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md