Color

#ae402d

#ae402d
hex#ae402d
rgbrgb(174, 64, 45)
hslhsl(9, 59%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.521 0.148 32.1)
Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1285

Colors that go with #ae402d

Royal Blue, Sea Green and Teal 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 #ae402d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2d9bae

#ae2d5a · #ae812d

#2dae40 · #402dae

Split-complementary

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#2dae81 · #2d5aae

#5aae2d · #2d9bae · #812dae

Contrast

#ae402d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.88:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9a3928 as the text (7.02:1)
Aaon black
3.57:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #cb4b34 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #d97d6d as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae402d as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ae402d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae402d
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 #ae402d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae402d-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md