Color

#a1871b

#a1871b
hex#a1871b
rgbrgb(161, 135, 27)
hslhsl(48, 71%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.63 0.121 94.2)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2498

Colors that go with #a1871b

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #a1871b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1b36a1

#a1441b · #79a11b

#1ba187 · #871ba1

Split-complementary

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#1b79a1 · #441ba1

#1ba144 · #1b36a1 · #a11b79

Contrast

#a1871b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.5:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c7418 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #695712 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b3951e as the text (7.23:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a1871b 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

#a1871b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1871b
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 #a1871b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1871b-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md