Color

#ab8b2b

#ab8b2b
hex#ab8b2b
rgbrgb(171, 139, 43)
hslhsl(45, 60%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.65 0.117 89.7)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.273

Colors that go with #ab8b2b

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 #ab8b2b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2b4bab

#ab4b2b · #8bab2b

#2bab8b · #8b2bab

Split-complementary

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#2b8bab · #4b2bab

#2bab4b · #2b4bab · #ab2b8b

Contrast

#ab8b2b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.25:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b7123 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #6a561b as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.66:1)
Aaon black
6.46:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b4922d as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8b2b 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

#ab8b2b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8b2b
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 #ab8b2b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8b2b-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md