Color
#ae980f
#ae980frgb(174, 152, 15)hsl(52, 84%, 37%)oklch(0.679 0.138 98.6)Colors that go with #ae980f
Charcoal, Cadet Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae980f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ae980f: 4 real palettes, including Estate and Paper & Pine, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #ae980f, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ae980f in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae980f: 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Open House, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ae980f in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Scale AI's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ae980f in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #ae980f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #ae980f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae980f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.88:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.3:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ae980f 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
#ae980f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ae980f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ae980f-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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