Color

#a56255

#a56255
hex#a56255
rgbrgb(165, 98, 85)
hslhsl(10, 32%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.568 0.09 31.8)
Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.1739

Colors that go with #a56255

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5598a5

#a55570 · #a58a55

#55a562 · #6255a5

Split-complementary

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#55a58a · #5570a5

#70a555 · #5598a5 · #8a55a5

Contrast

#a56255 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.69:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7d4a40 as the text (7.18:1)
Aaon black
4.48:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a86457 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #bd897f as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a56255 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

#a56255 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a56255
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 #a56255 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a56255-c4a79c-62cbaa-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md