Color

#a4a260

#a4a260
hex#a4a260
rgbrgb(164, 162, 96)
hslhsl(58, 27%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.088 107)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3458

Colors that go with #a4a260

Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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 #a4a260

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6063a4

#a48060 · #84a460

#60a4a2 · #a260a4

Split-complementary

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#6084a4 · #8060a4

#60a480 · #6063a4 · #a46084

Contrast

#a4a260 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787645 as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5934 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a4a260 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

#a4a260 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a4a260
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 #a4a260 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a4a260-bcbea2-4e99df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md