Color

#a38714

#a38714
hex#a38714
rgbrgb(163, 135, 20)
hslhsl(48, 78%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.631 0.124 93.5)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2516

Colors that go with #a38714

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 #a38714

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1431a3

#a33f14 · #78a314

#14a387 · #8714a3

Split-complementary

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#1478a3 · #3f14a3

#14a33f · #1431a3 · #a31478

Contrast

#a38714 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.48:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d7411 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #68560d as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.63:1)
Aaon black
6.03:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b69616 as the text (7.36:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a38714 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

#a38714 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38714
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 #a38714 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a38714-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md