Color
#a56240
#a56240rgb(165, 98, 64)hsl(20, 44%, 45%)oklch(0.564 0.1 46.9)Colors that go with #a56240
Champagne, Dark Olive Green and Denim 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #a56240, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a56240 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and BrandSweets's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a56240: 5 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a56240 in 6 real palettes, including Bookshop and Desert Road, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #a56240, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #a56240: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a56240: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #a56240 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #a56240
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a56240 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.75:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.42:1 | 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 #a56240 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
#a56240 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 #a56240 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a56240-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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