Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#ae6656
#ae6656
hex
#ae6656rgb
rgb(174, 102, 86)hsl
hsl(11, 35%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.587 0.097 33.4)Closest name: Amaretto (#ab6f60)Relative luminance 0.1917
Colors that go with #ae6656
Charcoal, Amber and Brown 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae6656: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ae6656 in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Garnet put Brown beside #ae6656, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ae6656: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #ae6656, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ae6656 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae6656: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #ae6656 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #ae6656
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae6656 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.34:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.83:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae6656 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
#ae6656 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae6656
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 #ae6656 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ae6656-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-f1e9ec?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