Color

#ac994d

#ac994d
hex#ac994d
rgbrgb(172, 153, 77)
hslhsl(48, 38%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.099 95.6)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3209

Colors that go with #ac994d

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 #ac994d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4d60ac

#ac6a4d · #90ac4d

#4dac99 · #994dac

Split-complementary

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#4d90ac · #6a4dac

#4dac6a · #4d60ac · #ac4d90

Contrast

#ac994d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #82743a as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #63582c as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.42:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ac994d 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

#ac994d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ac994d
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 #ac994d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ac994d-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md