Color

#ae9519

#ae9519
hex#ae9519
rgbrgb(174, 149, 25)
hslhsl(50, 75%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.673 0.132 96.4)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3056

Colors that go with #ae9519

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Champagne 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 #ae9519

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1932ae

#ae4b19 · #7cae19

#19ae95 · #9519ae

Split-complementary

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#197cae · #4b19ae

#19ae4b · #1932ae · #ae197c

Contrast

#ae9519 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #867313 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #67580f as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.11:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae9519 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

#ae9519 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9519
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 #ae9519 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9519-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md