Color

#ae8e56

#ae8e56
hex#ae8e56
rgbrgb(174, 142, 86)
hslhsl(38, 35%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.083 80.5)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2902

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5676ae

#ae6256 · #a2ae56

#56ae8e · #8e56ae

Split-complementary

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#56a2ae · #6256ae

#56ae62 · #5676ae · #ae56a2

Contrast

#ae8e56 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.09:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d7244 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #675432 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b1925d as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae8e56 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

#ae8e56 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae8e56
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ae8e56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8e56-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md