Color

#a8904d

#a8904d
hex#a8904d
rgbrgb(168, 144, 77)
hslhsl(44, 37%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.661 0.091 90.1)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2881

Colors that go with #a8904d

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Burlywood 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 #a8904d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#4d65a8

#a8624d · #93a84d

#4da890 · #904da8

Split-complementary

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#4d93a8 · #624da8

#4da862 · #4d65a8 · #a84d93

Contrast

#a8904d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #88753f as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #65572f as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.56:1)
Aaon black
6.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab934f as the text (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a8904d as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#a8904d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8904d
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 #a8904d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8904d-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md