Atelier
Open in tool →Black on bone with a whisper of gold: the runway default that lets garments carry the color.
Color
#a17645
#a17645
hex
#a17645rgb
rgb(161, 118, 69)hsl
hsl(32, 40%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.598 0.085 68.6)Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2096
Colors that go with #a17645
Cadet Blue, Champagne and Dark Olive 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #a17645: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a17645, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a17645 in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Cider, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a17645: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a17645 in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a17645 in 4 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a17645: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #a17645 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 #a17645
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a17645 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.04:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.19:1 | 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 #a17645 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
#a17645 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a17645
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 #a17645 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a17645-c4b69c-62c5cb-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