Color

#ae8b24

#ae8b24
hex#ae8b24
rgbrgb(174, 139, 36)
hslhsl(45, 66%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.652 0.122 88.7)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2759

Colors that go with #ae8b24

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 #ae8b24

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2446ae

#ae4624 · #8bae24

#24ae8b · #8b24ae

Split-complementary

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#248bae · #4624ae

#24ae46 · #2446ae · #ae248b

Contrast

#ae8b24 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.22:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #90731d as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #6a5516 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.52:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b69225 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae8b24 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

#ae8b24 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae8b24
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 #ae8b24 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8b24-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md