Color

#a89438

#a89438
hex#a89438
rgbrgb(168, 148, 56)
hslhsl(49, 50%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.113 96.9)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2979

Colors that go with #a89438

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Champagne 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 #a89438

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#384da8

#a85c38 · #85a838

#38a894 · #9438a8

Split-complementary

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#3885a8 · #5c38a8

#38a85c · #384da8 · #a83885

Contrast

#a89438 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #86762d as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #635721 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.69:1)
Aaon black
6.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ac9739 as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a89438 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

#a89438 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89438
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 #a89438 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89438-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md