Color

#ac9953

#ac9953
hex#ac9953
rgbrgb(172, 153, 83)
hslhsl(47, 35%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.093 94.6)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3218

Colors that go with #ac9953

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 #ac9953

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5366ac

#ac6c53 · #93ac53

#53ac99 · #9953ac

Split-complementary

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#5393ac · #6c53ac

#53ac6c · #5366ac · #ac5393

Contrast

#ac9953 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #83743f as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #60562e as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.44:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ac9953 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

#ac9953 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ac9953
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 #ac9953 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ac9953-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md