Color

#ae993d

#ae993d
hex#ae993d
rgbrgb(174, 153, 61)
hslhsl(49, 48%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.114 96.4)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3212

Colors that go with #ae993d

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 #ae993d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3d52ae

#ae613d · #8aae3d

#3dae99 · #993dae

Split-complementary

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#3d8aae · #613dae

#3dae61 · #3d52ae · #ae3d8a

Contrast

#ae993d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #84742e as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #625622 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.42:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae993d 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

#ae993d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae993d
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 #ae993d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae993d-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md