Color

#a79b52

#a79b52
hex#a79b52
rgbrgb(167, 155, 82)
hslhsl(52, 34%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.095 100.1)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3227

Colors that go with #a79b52

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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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#525ea7

#a77252 · #88a752

#52a79c · #9c52a7

Split-complementary

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#5288a7 · #7252a7

#52a772 · #525ea7 · #a75288

Contrast

#a79b52 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e763e as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #60592f as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.45:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a79b52 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

#a79b52 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a79b52
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 #a79b52 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a79b52-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md