Color

#ae9842

#ae9842
hex#ae9842
rgbrgb(174, 152, 66)
hslhsl(48, 45%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.682 0.109 95)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3185

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4257ae

#ae6242 · #8dae42

#42ae98 · #9842ae

Split-complementary

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#428dae · #6242ae

#42ae62 · #4257ae · #ae428d

Contrast

#ae9842 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #857532 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #645726 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.37:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae9842 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

#ae9842 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9842
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ae9842 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9842-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md