Color

#ae4004

#ae4004
hex#ae4004
rgbrgb(174, 64, 4)
hslhsl(21, 96%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.518 0.155 41.7)
Closest name: Rust (#b7410e)Relative luminance 0.1267

Colors that go with #ae4004

Crimson, Denim and Sea Green 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 #ae4004

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0473af

#af041d · #af9504

#04af40 · #4004af

Split-complementary

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#04af95 · #041daf

#1daf04 · #0473af · #9504af

Contrast

#ae4004 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.94:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9b3803 as the text (7.09:1)
Aaon black
3.53:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #cd4a04 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #fa6819 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (4.5:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae4004 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

#ae4004 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae4004
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 #ae4004 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae4004-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md