Color

#a3976c

#a3976c
hex#a3976c
rgbrgb(163, 151, 108)
hslhsl(47, 23%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.061 94.4)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.31

Colors that go with #a3976c

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #a3976c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6c78a3

#a37b6c · #93a36c

#6ca397 · #976ca3

Split-complementary

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#6c93a3 · #7b6ca3

#6ca37b · #6c78a3 · #a36c93

Contrast

#a3976c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #817651 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #5e563b as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.2:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a3976c 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

#a3976c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a3976c
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 #a3976c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a3976c-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md