Color

#a6835e

#a6835e
hex#a6835e
rgbrgb(166, 131, 94)
hslhsl(31, 29%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.634 0.067 67.7)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2515

Colors that go with #a6835e

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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.

Real palettes that use #a6835e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e81a6

#a65f5e · #a5a65e

#5ea683 · #835ea6

Split-complementary

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#5ea5a6 · #5f5ea6

#5ea65f · #5e81a6 · #a65ea5

Contrast

#a6835e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.48:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d6f4e as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #69523a as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.03:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #af906e as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a6835e 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

#a6835e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a6835e
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 #a6835e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a6835e-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md