Color

#ae9561

#ae9561
hex#ae9561
rgbrgb(174, 149, 97)
hslhsl(41, 32%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.68 0.076 84.8)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.3136

Colors that go with #ae9561

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 #ae9561

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6179ae

#ae6f61 · #9fae61

#61ae95 · #9561ae

Split-complementary

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#619fae · #6f61ae

#61ae6f · #6179ae · #ae619f

Contrast

#ae9561 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #877245 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #655534 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae9561 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ae9561 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9561
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 #ae9561 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9561-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md