Color

#a96451

#a96451
hex#a96451
rgbrgb(169, 100, 81)
hslhsl(13, 35%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.576 0.094 36.2)
Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.1814

Colors that go with #a96451

Amber, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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

Open in tool →

#5196a9

#a9516a · #a99051

#51a964 · #6451a9

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#51a990 · #516aa9

#6aa951 · #5196a9 · #9051a9

Contrast

#a96451 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.54:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7c4a3c as the text (7.24:1)
Aaon black
4.63:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #c08b7c as the text (7.23:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a96451 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

#a96451 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a96451
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 #a96451 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a96451-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md