Harvest
Open in tool →Pumpkin, straw and burnt gold on parchment — the autumn palette that still feels like a product, not a place-mat.
Color
#ae4309
#ae4309
hex
#ae4309rgb
rgb(174, 67, 9)hsl
hsl(21, 90%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.523 0.152 42.4)Closest name: Rust (#b7410e)Relative luminance 0.1303
Colors that go with #ae4309
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.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #ae4309's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Denim #1560bd
split-complementshippedDenim is a split-complement of #ae4309: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #ae4309 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #ae4309 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ae4309 in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #ae4309.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #ae4309: 4 real palettes, including Behance's brand system and MLB's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae4309: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #ae4309
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae4309 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.82:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.61:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae4309 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
#ae4309 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae4309
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ae4309 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ae4309-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md