Color

#a48e2d

#a48e2d
hex#a48e2d
rgbrgb(164, 142, 45)
hslhsl(49, 57%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.649 0.116 96)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2743

Colors that go with #a48e2d

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 #a48e2d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2d43a4

#a4532d · #7ea42d

#2da48e · #8e2da4

Split-complementary

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#2d7ea4 · #532da4

#2da453 · #2d43a4 · #a42d7e

Contrast

#a48e2d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.24:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #887625 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #64571b as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.67:1)
Aaon black
6.49:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ac952f as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a48e2d 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

#a48e2d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a48e2d
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 #a48e2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a48e2d-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md