Color
#a3986c
#a3986crgb(163, 152, 108)hsl(48, 23%, 53%)oklch(0.678 0.062 95.8)Colors that go with #a3986c
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a3986c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #a3986c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a3986c in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a3986c, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a3986c in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Oatmeal, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a3986c: 5 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Spline's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a3986c in 7 real palettes, including Darkroom and Pine & Birch, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a3986c in 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Chevrolet's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a3986c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a3986c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.89:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.27:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a3986c as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#a3986c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a3986c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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