Color
#aea909
#aea909rgb(174, 169, 9)hsl(58, 90%, 36%)oklch(0.716 0.152 107.5)Colors that go with #aea909
Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #aea909: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #aea909 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #aea909, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #aea909, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #aea909 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aea909: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #aea909 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #aea909 in 4 real palettes, including Chevrolet's brand system and Disney's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #aea909
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aea909 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.48:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.48:1 | 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 #aea909 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
#aea909 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #aea909 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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