Color

#ab8949

#ab8949
hex#ab8949
rgbrgb(171, 137, 73)
hslhsl(39, 40%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.649 0.092 81.7)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2703

Colors that go with #ab8949

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 #ab8949

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#496cab

#ab5849 · #9dab49

#49ab89 · #8949ab

Split-complementary

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#499dab · #5849ab

#49ab58 · #496cab · #ab499d

Contrast

#ab8949 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.28:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8f723d as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #6b562e as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.41:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b49150 as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8949 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ab8949 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8949
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 #ab8949 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8949-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md