Color

#a28511

#a28511
hex#a28511
rgbrgb(162, 133, 17)
hslhsl(48, 81%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.626 0.124 92.8)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.245

Colors that go with #a28511

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 #a28511

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#112ea2

#a23c11 · #76a211

#11a285 · #8511a2

Split-complementary

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#1176a2 · #3c11a2

#11a23c · #112ea2 · #a21176

Contrast

#a28511 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.56:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8a720f as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #6a570b as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.9:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b49413 as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a28511 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

#a28511 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a28511
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 #a28511 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a28511-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md