Color
#a69c36
#a69c36rgb(166, 156, 54)hsl(55, 51%, 43%)oklch(0.682 0.122 103.7)Colors that go with #a69c36
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blue 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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #a69c36 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a69c36: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #a69c36, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a69c36, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a69c36: 6 real palettes, including Bakery and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a69c36 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #a69c36 in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Scale AI's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a69c36 in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #a69c36
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a69c36 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.83:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.43:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a69c36 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
#a69c36 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a69c36 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a69c36-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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