Color

#ab9159

#ab9159
hex#ab9159
rgbrgb(171, 145, 89)
hslhsl(41, 33%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.668 0.081 85.4)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2963

Colors that go with #ab9159

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 #ab9159

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5973ab

#ab6859 · #9cab59

#59ab91 · #9159ab

Split-complementary

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#599cab · #6859ab

#59ab68 · #5973ab · #ab599c

Contrast

#ab9159 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.03:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #887244 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #665633 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.67:1)
Aaon black
6.93:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad935c as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab9159 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ab9159 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab9159
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 #ab9159 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab9159-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md