Color
#aaa227
#aaa227rgb(170, 162, 39)hsl(56, 63%, 41%)oklch(0.698 0.136 105.6)Colors that go with #aaa227
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #aaa227: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #aaa227 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #aaa227, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aaa227: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #aaa227 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aaa227: 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #aaa227 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #aaa227: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #aaa227
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aaa227 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.91:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #aaa227 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
#aaa227 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #aaa227 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/aaa227-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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