Color

#ab8f4f

#ab8f4f
hex#ab8f4f
rgbrgb(171, 143, 79)
hslhsl(42, 37%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.662 0.09 86.3)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2887

Colors that go with #ab8f4f

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood 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 #ab8f4f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4f6aab

#ab614f · #99ab4f

#4fab8f · #8f4fab

Split-complementary

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#4f99ab · #614fab

#4fab61 · #4f6aab · #ab4f99

Contrast

#ab8f4f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.1:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #88723f as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #65552f as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.57:1)
Aaon black
6.77:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #af9250 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab8f4f as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ab8f4f reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab8f4f
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 #ab8f4f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab8f4f-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md