Wellness
Open in tool →Sage and terracotta feel natural and calm — the anti-hospital palette for wellbeing brands.
Color
#a88261
#a88261
hex
#a88261rgb
rgb(168, 130, 97)hsl
hsl(28, 29%, 52%)oklch
oklch(0.635 0.066 62.2)Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2515
Colors that go with #a88261
Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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
split-complementshippedCadet Blue is a split-complement of #a88261: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a88261: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #a88261, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bramble put Champagne beside #a88261, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a88261 in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Cider, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a88261: 5 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Studio Grey, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #a88261 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Mid-Century, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a88261 in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #a88261
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a88261 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.48:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.03:1 | 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 #a88261 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#a88261 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88261
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a88261 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a88261-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md