Color

#ae974c

#ae974c
hex#ae974c
rgbrgb(174, 151, 76)
hslhsl(46, 39%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.681 0.099 92.6)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3165

Colors that go with #ae974c

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #ae974c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4c63ae

#ae664c · #94ae4c

#4cae97 · #974cae

Split-complementary

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#4c94ae · #664cae

#4cae66 · #4c63ae · #ae4c94

Contrast

#ae974c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.86:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #87753b as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #63562c as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.33:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae974c 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

#ae974c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae974c
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 #ae974c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae974c-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md