Color

#a88e2e

#a88e2e
hex#a88e2e
rgbrgb(168, 142, 46)
hslhsl(47, 57%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.653 0.116 93.5)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2787

Colors that go with #a88e2e

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #a88e2e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e49a8

#a8512e · #86a82e

#2ea88e · #8e2ea8

Split-complementary

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#2e86a8 · #512ea8

#2ea851 · #2e49a8 · #a82e86

Contrast

#a88e2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #887325 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #64541b as the text (7.43:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.55:1)
Aaon black
6.57:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b09430 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a88e2e 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

#a88e2e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a88e2e
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 #a88e2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a88e2e-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md