Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
Color
#a28e81
#a28e81
hex
#a28e81rgb
rgb(162, 142, 129)hsl
hsl(24, 15%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.661 0.031 55.1)Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2861
Colors that go with #a28e81
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a28e81: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #a28e81, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a28e81 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a28e81, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a28e81 in 6 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a28e81: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Spline's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #a28e81 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #a28e81: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #a28e81
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a28e81 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.12:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.72:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a28e81 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Fonts for this mood
#a28e81 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a28e81
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a28e81 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a28e81-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md