Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Color
#a38b5c
#a38b5c
hex
#a38b5crgb
rgb(163, 139, 92)hsl
hsl(40, 28%, 50%)oklch
oklch(0.647 0.07 83.6)Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2702
Colors that go with #a38b5c
Cornflower Blue, Blush Pink 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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #a38b5c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #a38b5c, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Darkroom put Champagne beside #a38b5c, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a38b5c in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Cider, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a38b5c: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a38b5c in 6 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a38b5c in 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Chevrolet's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a38b5c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a38b5c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a38b5c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.28:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.4:1 | 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 #a38b5c as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a38b5c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38b5c
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a38b5c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a38b5c-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md