Color

#ae9565

#ae9565
hex#ae9565
rgbrgb(174, 149, 101)
hslhsl(39, 31%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.071 83.2)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3143

Colors that go with #ae9565

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Burlywood 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 #ae9565

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#657fae

#ae7065 · #a3ae65

#65ae95 · #9565ae

Split-complementary

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#65a3ae · #7065ae

#65ae70 · #657fae · #ae65a3

Contrast

#ae9565 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #897248 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #685637 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.29:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae9565 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

#ae9565 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9565
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 #ae9565 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9565-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md