Color

#a17c5e

#a17c5e
hex#a17c5e
rgbrgb(161, 124, 94)
hslhsl(27, 26%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.615 0.063 60.3)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.228

Colors that go with #a17c5e

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Cadet 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 #a17c5e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e83a1

#a15e62 · #a19d5e

#5ea17c · #7c5ea1

Split-complementary

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#5ea19d · #5e62a1

#62a15e · #5e83a1 · #9d5ea1

Contrast

#a17c5e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.78:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #917055 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5440 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.56:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b09178 as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a17c5e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#a17c5e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a17c5e
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 #a17c5e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a17c5e-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md