Color
#a49c2d
#a49c2drgb(164, 156, 45)hsl(56, 57%, 41%)oklch(0.68 0.128 105.2)Colors that go with #a49c2d
Cadet Blue, Medium Purple and Champagne 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #a49c2d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #a49c2d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a49c2d, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a49c2d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a49c2d: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a49c2d in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Cider, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #a49c2d: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Sienna #a0522d
shippedSienna shows up next to #a49c2d in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #a49c2d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a49c2d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.37:1 | 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 #a49c2d 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
#a49c2d reads as warm. 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 #a49c2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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