Color

#ae9c65

#ae9c65
hex#ae9c65
rgbrgb(174, 156, 101)
hslhsl(45, 31%, 54%)
oklchoklch(0.696 0.076 92)
Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3372

Colors that go with #ae9c65

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6578ae

#ae7865 · #9cae65

#65ae9c · #9c65ae

Split-complementary

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#659cae · #7865ae

#65ae78 · #6578ae · #ae659c

Contrast

#ae9c65 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827345 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #645835 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.74:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae9c65 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

#ae9c65 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9c65
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 #ae9c65 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9c65-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md