Color

#a08f0d

#a08f0d
hex#a08f0d
rgbrgb(160, 143, 13)
hslhsl(53, 85%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.645 0.132 100.7)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2715

Colors that go with #a08f0d

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 #a08f0d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0d1ea0

#a0460d · #68a00d

#0da08f · #8f0da0

Split-complementary

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#0d68a0 · #460da0

#0da046 · #0d1ea0 · #a00d68

Contrast

#a08f0d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.27:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #84760b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #635808 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.63:1)
Aaon black
6.43:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #aa980e as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a08f0d 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

#a08f0d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a08f0d
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 #a08f0d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a08f0d-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md