Color

#aca162

#aca162
hex#aca162
rgbrgb(172, 161, 98)
hslhsl(51, 31%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.084 99.6)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3514

Colors that go with #aca162

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#626dac

#ac7c62 · #92ac62

#62aca1 · #a162ac

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#6292ac · #7c62ac

#62ac7c · #626dac · #ac6292

Contrast

#aca162 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.62:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7643 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5731 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
8.03:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aca162 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#aca162 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aca162
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 #aca162 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aca162-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md