Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#a74116
#a74116
hex
#a74116rgb
rgb(167, 65, 22)hsl
hsl(18, 77%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.509 0.145 40.5)Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1205
Colors that go with #a74116
Crimson, Denim and Teal 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.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #a74116's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Denim #1560bd
split-complementshippedDenim is a split-complement of #a74116: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #a74116 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #a74116 in 4 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #a74116, as the text colour against it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a74116 in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a74116 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Trailhead, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a74116: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a74116
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a74116 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.16:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.41:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a74116 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
#a74116 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a74116
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a74116 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a74116-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md