Color

#ae915b

#ae915b
hex#ae915b
rgbrgb(174, 145, 91)
hslhsl(39, 34%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.671 0.08 82.2)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.3

Colors that go with #ae915b

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood 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 #ae915b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5b78ae

#ae675b · #a2ae5b

#5bae91 · #915bae

Split-complementary

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#5ba2ae · #675bae

#5bae67 · #5b78ae · #ae5ba2

Contrast

#ae915b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c7345 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #675432 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7:1)
Aaon black
7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae915b 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

#ae915b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae915b
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 #ae915b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae915b-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md