Color
#a38929
#a38929rgb(163, 137, 41)hsl(47, 60%, 40%)oklch(0.637 0.115 93.3)Colors that go with #a38929
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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #a38929 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble put Champagne beside #a38929, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a38929: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a38929 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a38929: 5 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a38929 in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #a38929: 5 real palettes, including Cider and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Atelier and Greige put Slate Gray beside #a38929, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a38929
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a38929 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.17:1 | 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 #a38929 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#a38929 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a38929 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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