Color

#a38519

#a38519
hex#a38519
rgbrgb(163, 133, 25)
hslhsl(47, 73%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.627 0.121 91.7)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2463

Colors that go with #a38519

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 #a38519

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#1937a3

#a34119 · #7ca319

#19a385 · #8519a3

Split-complementary

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#197ca3 · #4119a3

#19a341 · #1937a3 · #a3197c

Contrast

#a38519 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.54:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d7316 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #6a5711 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.54:1)
Aaon black
5.93:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b5941c as the text (7.22:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a38519 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

#a38519 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38519
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 #a38519 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a38519-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md