Color

#a5a05f

#a5a05f
hex#a5a05f
rgbrgb(165, 160, 95)
hslhsl(56, 28%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.695 0.086 104.6)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3397

Colors that go with #a5a05f

Charcoal, Blue and Blush Pink 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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#5f64a5

#a57d5f · #87a55f

#5fa5a0 · #a05fa5

Split-complementary

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#5f87a5 · #7d5fa5

#5fa57d · #5f64a5 · #a55f87

Contrast

#a5a05f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c7846 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5933 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.79:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a5a05f 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

#a5a05f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5a05f
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 #a5a05f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5a05f-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md