Color

#ae9265

#ae9265
hex#ae9265
rgbrgb(174, 146, 101)
hslhsl(37, 31%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.675 0.07 79)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.305

Colors that go with #ae9265

Cadet Blue, Cornflower Blue 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 #ae9265

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6581ae

#ae6e65 · #a6ae65

#65ae92 · #9265ae

Split-complementary

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#65a6ae · #6e65ae

#65ae6e · #6581ae · #ae65a6

Contrast

#ae9265 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c734a as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #685537 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae9265 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

#ae9265 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9265
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 #ae9265 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9265-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md