Atelier
Open in tool →Black on bone with a whisper of gold: the runway default that lets garments carry the color.
Color
#a17445
#a17445
hex
#a17445rgb
rgb(161, 116, 69)hsl
hsl(31, 40%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.594 0.085 66.1)Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.205
Colors that go with #a17445
Champagne, Dark Olive Green and Hunter Green 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
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a17445, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a17445 in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Cider, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a17445 in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a17445 in 4 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Zed's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #a17445 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #a17445: 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Bakery, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a17445: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #a17445 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 #a17445
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a17445 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.12:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.1:1 | 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 #a17445 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
#a17445 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a17445
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 #a17445 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a17445-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-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