Color

#a49456

#a49456
hex#a49456
rgbrgb(164, 148, 86)
hslhsl(48, 31%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.084 95.3)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2974

Colors that go with #a49456

Charcoal, Burlywood and Cadet Blue 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 #a49456

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5666a4

#a46d56 · #8ca456

#56a494 · #9456a4

Split-complementary

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#568ca4 · #6d56a4

#56a46d · #5666a4 · #a4568c

Contrast

#a49456 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #827645 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #615833 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.69:1)
Aaon black
6.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a79758 as the text (7.21:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a49456 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

#a49456 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49456
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 #a49456 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49456-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md