Color
#a79b2a
#a79b2argb(167, 155, 42)hsl(54, 60%, 41%)oklch(0.68 0.129 103.1)Colors that go with #a79b2a
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 #a79b2a — 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 #a79b2a: 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 #a79b2a, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #a79b2a, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a79b2a: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a79b2a in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #a79b2a in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Scale AI's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a79b2a in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a79b2a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a79b2a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.37:1 | 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 #a79b2a 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
#a79b2a reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #a79b2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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