Color
#a0870e
#a0870ergb(160, 135, 14)hsl(50, 84%, 34%)oklch(0.628 0.126 95.5)Colors that go with #a0870e
Dodger Blue, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
split-complementshippedDodger Blue is a split-complement of #a0870e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #a0870e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble put Champagne beside #a0870e, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a0870e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a0870e in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a0870e in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #a0870e: 5 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Atelier and Riverbed put Slate Gray beside #a0870e, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a0870e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a0870e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.52:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.97:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a0870e 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
#a0870e 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 #a0870e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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