Color
#ab9d03
#ab9d03rgb(171, 157, 3)hsl(55, 97%, 34%)oklch(0.687 0.144 103.1)Colors that go with #ab9d03
Charcoal, Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ab9d03: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #ab9d03, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #ab9d03, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ab9d03 in 4 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ab9d03 in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Peloton's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ab9d03 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Rolex's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #ab9d03 in 4 real palettes, including Chevrolet's brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #ab9d03 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #ab9d03
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ab9d03 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.78:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.56:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ab9d03 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
#ab9d03 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ab9d03 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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