Color
#a8752e
#a8752ergb(168, 117, 46)hsl(35, 57%, 42%)oklch(0.602 0.107 71.8)Colors that go with #a8752e
Cadet Blue, Champagne and Dark Olive Green 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
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #a8752e: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #a8752e, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a8752e in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a8752e: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a8752e: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a8752e in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a8752e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #a8752e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #a8752e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a8752e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.25:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a8752e 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
#a8752e 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 #a8752e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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