Color

#ae8161

#ae8161
hex#ae8161
rgbrgb(174, 129, 97)
hslhsl(25, 32%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.64 0.072 56.5)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2556

Colors that go with #ae8161

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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 #ae8161

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#618eae

#ae6167 · #aea761

#61ae81 · #8161ae

Split-complementary

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#61aea7 · #6167ae

#67ae61 · #618eae · #a761ae

Contrast

#ae8161 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #976d4e as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #72523b as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.11:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b68e72 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae8161 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

#ae8161 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae8161
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 #ae8161 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8161-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md