Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#aea16b
#aea16b
hex
#aea16brgb
rgb(174, 161, 107)hsl
hsl(48, 29%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.707 0.074 96.2)Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3555
Colors that go with #aea16b
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #aea16b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #aea16b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #aea16b, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #aea16b in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #aea16b, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aea16b: 7 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #aea16b in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #aea16b: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #aea16b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aea16b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.59:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.11:1 | 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 #aea16b as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#aea16b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea16b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #aea16b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aea16b-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-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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