Color

#ab8a59

#ab8a59
hex#ab8a59
rgbrgb(171, 138, 89)
hslhsl(36, 33%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.653 0.077 76.6)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2756

Colors that go with #ab8a59

Cadet Blue, Cornflower Blue and Blush Pink 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 #ab8a59

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#597aab

#ab6159 · #a3ab59

#59ab8a · #8a59ab

Split-complementary

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#59a3ab · #6159ab

#59ab61 · #597aab · #ab59a3

Contrast

#ab8a59 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.23:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8e7248 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #695435 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.51:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b09163 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8a59 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ab8a59 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8a59
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 #ab8a59 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8a59-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md