Color

#a5a45f

#a5a45f
hex#a5a45f
rgbrgb(165, 164, 95)
hslhsl(59, 28%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.091 107.8)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3538

Colors that go with #a5a45f

Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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 #a5a45f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5f60a5

#a5815f · #83a55f

#5fa5a4 · #a45fa5

Split-complementary

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#5f83a5 · #815fa5

#5fa581 · #5f60a5 · #a55f83

Contrast

#a5a45f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.6:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797844 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5b33 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #141414 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
8.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a5a45f 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

#a5a45f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a5a45f
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 #a5a45f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a5a45f-bbbea2-4e96df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md