Color

#a9825b

#a9825b
hex#a9825b
rgbrgb(169, 130, 91)
hslhsl(30, 31%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.635 0.072 65.9)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2516

Colors that go with #a9825b

Cadet Blue, Charcoal and Blush Pink 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 #a9825b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5b82a9

#a95b5b · #a9a95b

#5ba982 · #825ba9

Split-complementary

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#5ba9a9 · #5b5ba9

#5ba95b · #5b82a9 · #a95ba9

Contrast

#a9825b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.48:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #93704d as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #6e543a as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.03:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b28f6c as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a9825b 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

#a9825b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9825b
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 #a9825b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9825b-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md