Color

#a38e33

#a38e33
hex#a38e33
rgbrgb(163, 142, 51)
hslhsl(49, 52%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.648 0.112 96)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2737

Colors that go with #a38e33

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 #a38e33

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3348a3

#a35733 · #80a333

#33a38e · #8e33a3

Split-complementary

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#3380a3 · #5733a3

#33a357 · #3348a3 · #a33380

Contrast

#a38e33 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.24:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #84732a as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #655820 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.67:1)
Aaon black
6.47:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab9536 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a38e33 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

#a38e33 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38e33
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 #a38e33 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a38e33-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md