Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Color
#a93b2d
#a93b2d
hex
#a93b2drgb
rgb(169, 59, 45)hsl
hsl(7, 58%, 42%)oklch
oklch(0.507 0.147 30.2)Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1175
Colors that go with #a93b2d
Royal Blue, Sea Green and Teal 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #a93b2d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #a93b2d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #a93b2d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #a93b2d, as the text colour against it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a93b2d in 6 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Nintendo's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a93b2d in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #a93b2d: 9 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #a93b2d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #a93b2d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a93b2d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.27:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.35:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a93b2d as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Fonts for this mood
#a93b2d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #a93b2d
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #a93b2d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a93b2d-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md