Color

#a0872c

#a0872c
hex#a0872c
rgbrgb(160, 135, 44)
hslhsl(47, 57%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.63 0.111 93.3)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2498

Colors that go with #a0872c

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 #a0872c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#2c45a0

#a04d2c · #7fa02c

#2ca087 · #872ca0

Split-complementary

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#2c7fa0 · #4d2ca0

#2ca04d · #2c45a0 · #a02c7f

Contrast

#a0872c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.5:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #887325 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #64541b as the text (7.43:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b09430 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a0872c 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

#a0872c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a0872c
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 #a0872c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a0872c-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md