Color

#ab8836

#ab8836
hex#ab8836
rgbrgb(171, 136, 54)
hslhsl(42, 52%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.644 0.108 85.5)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2653

Colors that go with #ab8836

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #ab8836

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#3659ab

#ab4d36 · #93ab36

#36ab88 · #8836ab

Split-complementary

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#3693ab · #4d36ab

#36ab4d · #3659ab · #ab3693

Contrast

#ab8836 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.33:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8f722d as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #695321 as the text (7.34:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.54:1)
Aaon black
6.31:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b6913a as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8836 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

#ab8836 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8836
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 #ab8836 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8836-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md