Color

#a0850d

#a0850d
hex#a0850d
rgbrgb(160, 133, 13)
hslhsl(49, 85%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.624 0.125 94.1)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2428

Colors that go with #a0850d

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #a0850d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0d28a0

#a03c0d · #72a00d

#0da085 · #850da0

Split-complementary

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#0d72a0 · #3c0da0

#0da03c · #0d28a0 · #a00d72

Contrast

#a0850d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.59:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #89720b as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #685608 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (4.6:1)
Aaon black
5.86:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b3950f as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a0850d 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

#a0850d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a0850d
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 #a0850d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a0850d-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md