Color

#a89c61

#a89c61
hex#a89c61
rgbrgb(168, 156, 97)
hslhsl(50, 29%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.08 98.1)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3296

Colors that go with #a89c61

Charcoal, Burlywood and Cadet 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#616da8

#a87961 · #90a861

#61a89c · #9c61a8

Split-complementary

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#6190a8 · #7961a8

#61a879 · #616da8 · #a86190

Contrast

#a89c61 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.77:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #807747 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5835 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0d0d0d (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.59:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a89c61 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

#a89c61 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a89c61
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 #a89c61 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a89c61-c4c29c-4eacdf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md