Color

#a8640b

#a8640b
hex#a8640b
rgbrgb(168, 100, 11)
hslhsl(34, 88%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.567 0.125 64.2)
Closest name: Caramel (#af6f09)Relative luminance 0.1746

Colors that go with #a8640b

Champagne, Dark Olive Green and Denim 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

Open in tool →

#0b4fa8

#a8150b · #9da80b

#0ba864 · #640ba8

Split-complementary

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#0b9da8 · #150ba8

#0ba815 · #0b4fa8 · #a80b9d

Contrast

#a8640b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.67:1passpassfail
Aaon black
4.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ad670b as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #d8800e as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (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 #a8640b as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a8640b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8640b
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 #a8640b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8640b-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md