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
#ae4d2d
#ae4d2d
hex
#ae4d2drgb
rgb(174, 77, 45)hsl
hsl(15, 59%, 43%)oklch
oklch(0.54 0.135 38.5)Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.145
Colors that go with #ae4d2d
Crimson, 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.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #ae4d2d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #ae4d2d — 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 #ae4d2d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #ae4d2d.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ae4d2d in 6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Magazine Ochre.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae4d2d: 10 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the accent.
Gold #ffd700
shippedGold shows up next to #ae4d2d in 4 real palettes, including Garnet and Lay's's brand system, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae4d2d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #ae4d2d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae4d2d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.39:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.9:1 | 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 #ae4d2d 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
#ae4d2d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae4d2d
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 #ae4d2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ae4d2d-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?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