Color

#afae5a

#afae5a
hex#afae5a
rgbrgb(175, 174, 90)
hslhsl(59, 35%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.734 0.107 108.2)
Closest name: Around the Gills (#a1b670)Relative luminance 0.4012

Colors that go with #afae5a

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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#5a5baf

#af835a · #86af5a

#5aafae · #ae5aaf

Split-complementary

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#5a86af · #835aaf

#5aaf83 · #5a5baf · #af5a86

Contrast

#afae5a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #78773a as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #5a592b as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.08:1)
Aaon black
9.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #afae5a 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

#afae5a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #afae5a
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 #afae5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/afae5a-bbbea2-4e96df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md