Color

#a85148

#a85148
hex#a85148
rgbrgb(168, 81, 72)
hslhsl(6, 40%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.541 0.116 27.6)
Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1468

Colors that go with #a85148

Royal Blue, Sea Green 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.

Real palettes that use #a85148

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#489ea8

#a8486e · #a88148

#48a851 · #5148a8

Split-complementary

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#48a881 · #486ea8

#6ea848 · #489ea8 · #8148a8

Contrast

#a85148 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.34:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8b443c as the text (7.02:1)
Aaon black
3.94:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b45a50 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #c8867e as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ededed (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a85148 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

#a85148 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a85148
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 #a85148 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a85148-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md