Color

#a79a39

#a79a39
hex#a79a39
rgbrgb(167, 154, 57)
hslhsl(53, 49%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.679 0.117 101.6)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3162

Colors that go with #a79a39

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 #a79a39

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3946a7

#a76339 · #7da739

#39a79a · #9a39a7

Split-complementary

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#397da7 · #6339a7

#39a763 · #3946a7 · #a7397d

Contrast

#a79a39 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #81772c as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5821 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.32:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79a39 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

#a79a39 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79a39
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 #a79a39 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79a39-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md