Color
#ae9342
#ae9342rgb(174, 147, 66)hsl(45, 45%, 47%)oklch(0.672 0.105 90.9)Colors that go with #ae9342
Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #ae9342 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae9342: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #ae9342, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ae9342 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Darkroom put Champagne beside #ae9342, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ae9342 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ae9342: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #ae9342: 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Newsprint, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ae9342
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae9342 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.98:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.05:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ae9342 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
#ae9342 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ae9342 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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