Color

#a68436

#a68436
hex#a68436
rgbrgb(166, 132, 54)
hslhsl(42, 51%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.631 0.104 85.2)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2488

Colors that go with #a68436

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 #a68436

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3657a6

#a64c36 · #8fa636

#36a684 · #8436a6

Split-complementary

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#368fa6 · #4c36a6

#36a64c · #3657a6 · #a6368f

Contrast

#a68436 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.51:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8e722e as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5623 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
5.98:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b5903b as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a68436 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

#a68436 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a68436
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 #a68436 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a68436-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md