Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#a14a2b
#a14a2b
hex
#a14a2brgb
rgb(161, 74, 43)hsl
hsl(16, 58%, 40%)oklch
oklch(0.515 0.124 39.6)Closest name: sienna (#a0522d)Relative luminance 0.1265
Colors that go with #a14a2b
Crimson, Teal and Amber 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.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #a14a2b's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #a14a2b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a14a2b in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a14a2b.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a14a2b in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a14a2b: 8 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a14a2b in 5 real palettes, including Fireside and Trailhead, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a14a2b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a14a2b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a14a2b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.95:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.53:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a14a2b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a14a2b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a14a2b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a14a2b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a14a2b-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md