Color

#a5872c

#a5872c
hex#a5872c
rgbrgb(165, 135, 44)
hslhsl(45, 58%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.635 0.113 90.1)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2551

Colors that go with #a5872c

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #a5872c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2c4aa5

#a54a2c · #87a52c

#2ca587 · #872ca5

Split-complementary

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#2c87a5 · #4a2ca5

#2ca54a · #2c4aa5 · #a52c87

Contrast

#a5872c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d7325 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #69561c as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.1:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b59430 as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a5872c 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

#a5872c reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5872c
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 #a5872c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5872c-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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