Color

#a6993f

#a6993f
hex#a6993f
rgbrgb(166, 153, 63)
hslhsl(52, 45%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.676 0.112 101.1)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3125

Colors that go with #a6993f

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Champagne 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 #a6993f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3f4da6

#a6653f · #81a63f

#3fa699 · #993fa6

Split-complementary

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#3f81a6 · #653fa6

#3fa665 · #3f4da6 · #a63f81

Contrast

#a6993f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #817731 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #605824 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
7.25:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a6993f 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

#a6993f reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a6993f
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 #a6993f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a6993f-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md