Color

#a69f59

#a69f59
hex#a69f59
rgbrgb(166, 159, 89)
hslhsl(55, 30%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.693 0.092 103.5)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3362

Colors that go with #a69f59

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5960a6

#a67959 · #86a659

#59a69f · #9f59a6

Split-complementary

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#5986a6 · #7959a6

#59a679 · #5960a6 · #a65986

Contrast

#a69f59 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.72:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7642 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5932 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.72:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a69f59 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

#a69f59 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a69f59
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 #a69f59 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a69f59-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md