Color
#ae5f37
#ae5f37rgb(174, 95, 55)hsl(20, 52%, 45%)oklch(0.57 0.116 46.2)Colors that go with #ae5f37
Steel Blue, Amber and Cadet Blue 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #ae5f37 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 #ae5f37 in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ae5f37: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Bramble put Champagne beside #ae5f37.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae5f37: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ae5f37 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae5f37: 7 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Etsy's brand system, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ae5f37: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ae5f37
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae5f37 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.68:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.49:1 | 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 #ae5f37 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
#ae5f37 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ae5f37 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ae5f37-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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