Color

#a38f48

#a38f48
hex#a38f48
rgbrgb(163, 143, 72)
hslhsl(47, 39%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.653 0.094 93.9)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.279

Colors that go with #a38f48

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 #a38f48

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#485ba3

#a36148 · #89a348

#48a38f · #8f48a3

Split-complementary

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#4889a3 · #6148a3

#48a361 · #485ba3 · #a34889

Contrast

#a38f48 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #83733a as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #63572c as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.58:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #aa954b as the text (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a38f48 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

#a38f48 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a38f48
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 #a38f48 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a38f48-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md