Color

#a8955d

#a8955d
hex#a8955d
rgbrgb(168, 149, 93)
hslhsl(45, 30%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.674 0.078 91.4)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3061

Colors that go with #a8955d

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Cornflower Blue 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 #a8955d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5d6fa8

#a86f5d · #95a85d

#5da895 · #955da8

Split-complementary

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#5d95a8 · #6f5da8

#5da86f · #5d6fa8 · #a85d95

Contrast

#a8955d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #857547 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #635836 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.12:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a8955d 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

#a8955d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a8955d
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 #a8955d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a8955d-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md