Color

#a57940

#a57940
hex#a57940
rgbrgb(165, 121, 64)
hslhsl(34, 44%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.608 0.092 71.7)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2204

Colors that go with #a57940

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Dark Olive Green 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 #a57940

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#406ca5

#a54740 · #9fa540

#40a579 · #7940a5

Split-complementary

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#409fa5 · #4740a5

#40a547 · #406ca5 · #a5409f

Contrast

#a57940 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.88:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #976f3b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #6e512b as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
5.41:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bc8e52 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a57940 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

#a57940 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a57940
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 #a57940 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a57940-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md