Color

#a4840e

#a4840e
hex#a4840e
rgbrgb(164, 132, 14)
hslhsl(47, 84%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.626 0.125 91.1)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2443

Colors that go with #a4840e

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 #a4840e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0e2fa4

#a4390e · #7aa40e

#0ea484 · #840ea4

Split-complementary

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#0e7aa4 · #390ea4

#0ea439 · #0e2fa4 · #a40e7a

Contrast

#a4840e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.57:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d710c as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #675309 as the text (7.45:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.89:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b79310 as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a4840e 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

#a4840e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a4840e
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 #a4840e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a4840e-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md