Color

#aeaa5b

#aeaa5b
hex#aeaa5b
rgbrgb(174, 170, 91)
hslhsl(57, 34%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.724 0.102 106.1)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.385

Colors that go with #aeaa5b

Charcoal, Lilac 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5b5fae

#ae805b · #89ae5b

#5baeaa · #aa5bae

Split-complementary

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#5b89ae · #805bae

#5bae80 · #5b5fae · #ae5b89

Contrast

#aeaa5b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b783d as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5a2d as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.06:1)
Aaon black
8.7:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aeaa5b 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

#aeaa5b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aeaa5b
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 #aeaa5b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aeaa5b-bcbea2-4e9bdf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md