Color

#a49974

#a49974
hex#a49974
rgbrgb(164, 153, 116)
hslhsl(46, 21%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.683 0.053 93.5)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3194

Colors that go with #a49974

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 #a49974

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#747fa4

#a48174 · #97a474

#74a499 · #9974a4

Split-complementary

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#7497a4 · #8174a4

#74a481 · #747fa4 · #a47497

Contrast

#a49974 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.84:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7453 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #60583e as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #080808 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.39:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a49974 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

#a49974 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a49974
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 #a49974 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a49974-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md