Color
#a5685f
#a5685frgb(165, 104, 95)hsl(8, 28%, 51%)oklch(0.581 0.08 28.9)Colors that go with #a5685f
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a5685f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #a5685f, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a5685f, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a5685f in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and BrandSweets's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a5685f in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Desert Road, as the accent.
Orange #ffa500
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite and Sunset Boulevard put Orange beside #a5685f, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #a5685f, as the lead colour.
Dark Cyan #008b8b
complementaryDark Cyan sits directly opposite #a5685f 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 #a5685f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a5685f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.43:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.75:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a5685f 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
#a5685f reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #a5685f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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