Color

#a89638

#a89638
hex#a89638
rgbrgb(168, 150, 56)
hslhsl(50, 50%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.671 0.115 98.4)
Closest name: Faint Gold (#b59410)Relative luminance 0.3042

Colors that go with #a89638

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 #a89638

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#384ba8

#a85e38 · #83a838

#38a896 · #9638a8

Split-complementary

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#3883a8 · #5d38a8

#38a85e · #384ba8 · #a83883

Contrast

#a89638 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #82742b as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #635821 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89638 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

#a89638 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89638
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 #a89638 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89638-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md