Color

#a38848

#a38848
hex#a38848
rgbrgb(163, 136, 72)
hslhsl(42, 39%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.638 0.089 86.9)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2586

Colors that go with #a38848

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 #a38848

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4863a3

#a35a48 · #91a348

#48a388 · #8848a3

Split-complementary

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#4891a3 · #5a48a3

#48a35a · #4863a3 · #a34891

Contrast

#a38848 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8a733d as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #67552d as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.17:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b1934e as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a38848 as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a38848 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38848
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 #a38848 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a38848-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md