Color

#a09a5a

#a09a5a
hex#a09a5a
rgbrgb(160, 154, 90)
hslhsl(55, 28%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.677 0.085 103.7)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3132

Colors that go with #a09a5a

Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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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#5a60a0

#a0775a · #83a05a

#5aa09a · #9a5aa0

Split-complementary

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#5a83a0 · #775aa0

#5aa077 · #5a60a0 · #a05a83

Contrast

#a09a5a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7846 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5833 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.26:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09a5a 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

#a09a5a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09a5a
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 #a09a5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09a5a-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md