Color

#af8a5a

#af8a5a
hex#af8a5a
rgbrgb(175, 138, 90)
hslhsl(34, 35%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.657 0.079 73)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2803

Colors that go with #af8a5a

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower 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.

Real palettes that use #af8a5a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5a7faf

#af5f5a · #aaaf5a

#5aaf8a · #8a5aaf

Split-complementary

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#5aaaaf · #5f5aaf

#5aaf5f · #5a7faf · #af5aaa

Contrast

#af8a5a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.18:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #917046 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5333 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.61:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b38f61 as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #af8a5a as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#af8a5a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #af8a5a
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 #af8a5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/af8a5a-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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