Color

#a17230

#a17230
hex#a17230
rgbrgb(161, 114, 48)
hslhsl(35, 54%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.587 0.101 72.6)
Closest name: Caramel (#af6f09)Relative luminance 0.1983

Colors that go with #a17230

Champagne, Dark Olive Green and Dodger Blue 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 #a17230

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#305fa1

#a13a30 · #98a130

#30a172 · #7230a1

Split-complementary

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#3098a1 · #3a30a1

#30a13a · #305fa1 · #a13098

Contrast

#a17230 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.23:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #996c2e as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #725122 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (4.53:1)
Aaon black
4.97:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c48b3b as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a17230 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

#a17230 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a17230
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 #a17230 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a17230-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md