Color

#a1974f

#a1974f
hex#a1974f
rgbrgb(161, 151, 79)
hslhsl(53, 34%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.094 101.5)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3027

Colors that go with #a1974f

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood 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 #a1974f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4f59a1

#a16e4f · #81a14f

#4fa197 · #974fa1

Split-complementary

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#4f81a1 · #6e4fa1

#4fa16e · #4f59a1 · #a14f81

Contrast

#a1974f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.98:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e773e as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5c572d as the text (7.35:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.05:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a1974f 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

#a1974f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a1974f
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 #a1974f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a1974f-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md