Color

#aca85d

#aca85d
hex#aca85d
rgbrgb(172, 168, 93)
hslhsl(57, 32%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.718 0.097 105.9)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3757

Colors that go with #aca85d

Charcoal, Lilac 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5d61ac

#ac815d · #89ac5d

#5daca8 · #a85dac

Split-complementary

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#5d89ac · #815dac

#5dac81 · #5d61ac · #ac5d89

Contrast

#aca85d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.47:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #79763e as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #5b592f as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aca85d 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

#aca85d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aca85d
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 #aca85d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aca85d-bcbea2-4e9bdf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md