Color

#a89b48

#a89b48
hex#a89b48
rgbrgb(168, 155, 72)
hslhsl(52, 40%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.684 0.105 100.5)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3224

Colors that go with #a89b48

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 #a89b48

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4855a8

#a86b48 · #85a848

#48a89b · #9b48a8

Split-complementary

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#4885a8 · #6b48a8

#48a86b · #4855a8 · #a84885

Contrast

#a89b48 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #817737 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #605929 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.45:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89b48 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

#a89b48 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89b48
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 #a89b48 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89b48-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md