Color

#ab9559

#ab9559
hex#ab9559
rgbrgb(171, 149, 89)
hslhsl(44, 33%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.083 90)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3087

Colors that go with #ab9559

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 #ab9559

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#596fab

#ab6c59 · #98ab59

#59ab95 · #9559ab

Split-complementary

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#5998ab · #6c59ab

#59ab6c · #596fab · #ab5998

Contrast

#ab9559 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.93:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847343 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #625532 as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.17:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ab9559 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

#ab9559 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ab9559
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 #ab9559 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ab9559-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md