Color

#a2871a

#a2871a
hex#a2871a
rgbrgb(162, 135, 26)
hslhsl(48, 72%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.631 0.122 93.7)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2508

Colors that go with #a2871a

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 #a2871a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1a36a2

#a2431a · #7aa21a

#1aa287 · #871aa2

Split-complementary

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#1a7aa2 · #431aa2

#1aa243 · #1a36a2 · #a21a7a

Contrast

#a2871a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #887116 as the text (4.75:1)
  • AAA: use #655410 as the text (7.42:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.02:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b4961d as the text (7.32:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a2871a 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

#a2871a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a2871a
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 #a2871a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a2871a-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md