Color

#a9515a

#a9515a
hex#a9515a
rgbrgb(169, 81, 90)
hslhsl(354, 35%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.546 0.116 15.3)
Closest name: Barbarossa (#a84734)Relative luminance 0.1506

Colors that go with #a9515a

Sea Green, Teal and Amber 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 #a9515a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#51a9a0

#a95186 · #a97451

#5aa951 · #515aa9

Split-complementary

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#51a974 · #5186a9

#86a951 · #51a9a0 · #7451a9

Contrast

#a9515a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.23:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8a4249 as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
4.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b15d66 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #c5878d as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.59:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a9515a 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

#a9515a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9515a
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 #a9515a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9515a-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md