Color

#a18e17

#a18e17
hex#a18e17
rgbrgb(161, 142, 23)
hslhsl(52, 75%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.645 0.128 99.2)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2698

Colors that go with #a18e17

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 #a18e17

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1729a1

#a14917 · #6ea117

#17a18e · #8e17a1

Split-complementary

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#176ea1 · #4917a1

#17a149 · #1729a1 · #a1176e

Contrast

#a18e17 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.28:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #867713 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #62570e as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.4:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #aa9618 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a18e17 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

#a18e17 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a18e17
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 #a18e17 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a18e17-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md