Color

#ab8936

#ab8936
hex#ab8936
rgbrgb(171, 137, 54)
hslhsl(43, 52%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.646 0.108 86.4)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2682

Colors that go with #ab8936

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 #ab8936

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#3657ab

#ab4f36 · #91ab36

#36ab89 · #8936ab

Split-complementary

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#3691ab · #4f36ab

#36ab4f · #3657ab · #ab3691

Contrast

#ab8936 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c702c as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #695421 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.36:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b6933a as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8936 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

#ab8936 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8936
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 #ab8936 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8936-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md