Color

#a28949

#a28949
hex#a28949
rgbrgb(162, 137, 73)
hslhsl(43, 38%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.639 0.089 88.5)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2605

Colors that go with #a28949

Blush Pink, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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 #a28949

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4962a2

#a25c49 · #8fa249

#49a289 · #8949a2

Split-complementary

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#498fa2 · #5c49a2

#49a25c · #4962a2 · #a2498f

Contrast

#a28949 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.38:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #89743e as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #66562e as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.21:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b0944f 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 #a28949 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a28949 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a28949
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 #a28949 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a28949-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md