Color
#a85e38
#a85e38rgb(168, 94, 56)hsl(20, 50%, 44%)oklch(0.56 0.11 46.7)Colors that go with #a85e38
Steel Blue, Blush Pink 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #a85e38 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #a85e38, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Bramble put Champagne beside #a85e38.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a85e38 in 6 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and BrandSweets's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a85e38: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Postman's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a85e38 in 5 real palettes, including Trailhead and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #a85e38 in 5 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Zed's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a85e38: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a85e38
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a85e38 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.86:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.32:1 | 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 #a85e38 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
#a85e38 reads as warm. 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 #a85e38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/a85e38-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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