Color

#ae8a47

#ae8a47
hex#ae8a47
rgbrgb(174, 138, 71)
hslhsl(39, 42%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.653 0.096 81.3)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2763

Colors that go with #ae8a47

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #ae8a47

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#476bae

#ae5647 · #9eae47

#47ae8a · #8a47ae

Split-complementary

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#479eae · #5647ae

#47ae56 · #476bae · #ae479e

Contrast

#ae8a47 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.22:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d703a as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #69532b as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.53:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b5904a as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae8a47 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ae8a47 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae8a47
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 #ae8a47 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8a47-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md