Color
#a8a31a
#a8a31argb(168, 163, 26)hsl(58, 73%, 38%)oklch(0.698 0.144 107.3)Colors that go with #a8a31a
Cornflower 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.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
complementaryshippedCornflower Blue sits directly opposite #a8a31a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #a8a31a, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a8a31a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a8a31a in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #a8a31a: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Sienna #a0522d
shippedSienna shows up next to #a8a31a in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Harvest, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty put Slate Gray beside #a8a31a, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #a8a31a in 13 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Olive Grove, as the surface under it.
Real palettes that use #a8a31a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a8a31a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.65:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.92:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #a8a31a 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
#a8a31a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #a8a31a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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