Color

#aaa56e

#aaa56e
hex#aaa56e
rgbrgb(170, 165, 110)
hslhsl(55, 26%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.713 0.074 103.7)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3658

Colors that go with #aaa56e

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Lilac 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 #aaa56e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6e73aa

#aa876e · #91aa6e

#6eaaa5 · #a56eaa

Split-complementary

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#6e91aa · #876eaa

#6eaa87 · #6e73aa · #aa6e91

Contrast

#aaa56e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7648 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5a37 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
8.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaa56e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aaa56e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaa56e
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 #aaa56e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaa56e-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md