Color

#ae9461

#ae9461
hex#ae9461
rgbrgb(174, 148, 97)
hslhsl(40, 32%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.678 0.075 83.6)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.3104

Colors that go with #ae9461

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower Blue 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 #ae9461

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#617aae

#ae6e61 · #a1ae61

#61ae94 · #9461ae

Split-complementary

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#61a1ae · #6e61ae

#61ae6e · #617aae · #ae61a1

Contrast

#ae9461 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #877145 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #655534 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae9461 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ae9461 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9461
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 #ae9461 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9461-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md