Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Color
#a17036
#a17036
hex
#a17036rgb
rgb(161, 112, 54)hsl
hsl(33, 50%, 42%)oklch
oklch(0.584 0.097 68.4)Closest name: Caramel (#af6f09)Relative luminance 0.1943
Colors that go with #a17036
Champagne, Dark Olive Green and Denim 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a17036, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a17036 in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a17036: 4 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a17036: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a17036 in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a17036 in 4 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Zed's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a17036: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #a17036 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #a17036
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a17036 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.3:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.89:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a17036 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
#a17036 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a17036
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 #a17036 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a17036-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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