Color

#a36e43

#a36e43
hex#a36e43
rgbrgb(163, 110, 67)
hslhsl(27, 42%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.584 0.089 58.8)
Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.1934

Colors that go with #a36e43

Royal Blue, Champagne and Dark Olive Green 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 #a36e43

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4378a3

#a34347 · #a39e43

#43a36e · #6e43a3

Split-complementary

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#43a39e · #4347a3

#47a343 · #4378a3 · #9e43a3

Contrast

#a36e43 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.31:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9f6b41 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #744e2f as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (4.51:1)
Aaon black
4.87:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bf8d63 as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a36e43 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#a36e43 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a36e43
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 #a36e43 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a36e43-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md