Color

#a97a42

#a97a42
hex#a97a42
rgbrgb(169, 122, 66)
hslhsl(33, 44%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.615 0.094 69.4)
Closest name: Copper (#b87333)Relative luminance 0.2275

Colors that go with #a97a42

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Dark Olive Green 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 #a97a42

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4270a9

#a94742 · #a4a942

#42a97a · #7a42a9

Split-complementary

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#42a4a9 · #4742a9

#42a947 · #4270a9 · #a942a4

Contrast

#a97a42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.78:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #976d3b as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #72532c as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (4.5:1)
Aaon black
5.55:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #bc8c52 as the text (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a97a42 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

#a97a42 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a97a42
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 #a97a42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a97a42-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md