Color

#a09e5a

#a09e5a
hex#a09e5a
rgbrgb(160, 158, 90)
hslhsl(58, 28%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.09 107.1)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3267

Colors that go with #a09e5a

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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#5a5ca0

#a07b5a · #7fa05a

#5aa09e · #9e5aa0

Split-complementary

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#5a7fa0 · #7b5aa0

#5aa07b · #5a5ca0 · #a05a7f

Contrast

#a09e5a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.79:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797744 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5a33 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a09e5a 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

#a09e5a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a09e5a
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 #a09e5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a09e5a-bcbea2-4e99df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md