Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#a54022
#a54022
hex
#a54022rgb
rgb(165, 64, 34)hsl
hsl(14, 66%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.505 0.141 36.9)Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1178
Colors that go with #a54022
Crimson, Royal Blue and Teal 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.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #a54022's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #a54022 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #a54022 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a54022 in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #a54022, as the text colour against it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a54022 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a54022: 9 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a54022: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a54022
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a54022 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.26:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.36:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a54022 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a54022 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a54022
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a54022 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a54022-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md