Color

#ae987a

#ae987a
hex#ae987a
rgbrgb(174, 152, 122)
hslhsl(35, 24%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.691 0.049 75.4)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.3286

Colors that go with #ae987a

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 #ae987a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7a90ae

#ae7e7a · #a9ae7a

#7aae98 · #987aae

Split-complementary

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#7aa9ae · #7e7aae

#7aae7e · #7a90ae · #ae7aa9

Contrast

#ae987a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #887253 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #65553e as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.57:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae987a 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

#ae987a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae987a
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 #ae987a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae987a-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md