Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
Color
#a38d85
#a38d85
hex
#a38d85rgb
rgb(163, 141, 133)hsl
hsl(16, 14%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.661 0.029 41)Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2853
Colors that go with #a38d85
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #a38d85 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #a38d85, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a38d85 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #a38d85, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a38d85 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a38d85: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Spline's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #a38d85 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a38d85 in 6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #a38d85
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a38d85 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.13:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.71:1 | 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 #a38d85 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a38d85 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38d85
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 #a38d85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a38d85-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?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