Color

#ab8e49

#ab8e49
hex#ab8e49
rgbrgb(171, 142, 73)
hslhsl(42, 40%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.095 86.9)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2848

Colors that go with #ab8e49

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Champagne 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 #ab8e49

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4967ab

#ab5d49 · #98ab49

#49ab8e · #8e49ab

Split-complementary

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#4998ab · #5d49ab

#49ab5d · #4967ab · #ab4998

Contrast

#ab8e49 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b733c as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #68562c as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.7:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b3944d as the text (7.26:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8e49 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ab8e49 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8e49
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 #ab8e49 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8e49-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md