Color

#ae8142

#ae8142
hex#ae8142
rgbrgb(174, 129, 66)
hslhsl(35, 45%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.635 0.098 73.6)
Closest name: Arrakis Spice (#bb8246)Relative luminance 0.2509

Colors that go with #ae8142

Cadet Blue, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #ae8142

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#426fae

#ae4b42 · #a5ae42

#42ae81 · #8142ae

Split-complementary

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#42a5ae · #4b42ae

#42ae4b · #426fae · #ae42a5

Contrast

#ae8142 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #946e38 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6f522a as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.02:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bc8e4e as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae8142 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

#ae8142 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae8142
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 #ae8142 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8142-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md