Color

#a18e45

#a18e45
hex#a18e45
rgbrgb(161, 142, 69)
hslhsl(48, 40%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.648 0.096 95)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2735

Colors that go with #a18e45

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 #a18e45

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4557a1

#a16045 · #85a145

#45a18e · #8e45a1

Split-complementary

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#4585a1 · #6045a1

#45a160 · #4557a1 · #a14585

Contrast

#a18e45 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.25:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #847539 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #605529 as the text (7.42:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.66:1)
Aaon black
6.47:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a89548 as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a18e45 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

#a18e45 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a18e45
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 #a18e45 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a18e45-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md