Color

#a9873d

#a9873d
hex#a9873d
rgbrgb(169, 135, 61)
hslhsl(41, 47%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.641 0.101 84.4)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.261

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3d5fa9

#a9513d · #95a93d

#3da987 · #873da9

Split-complementary

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#3d95a9 · #513da9

#3da951 · #3d5fa9 · #a93d95

Contrast

#a9873d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.38:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8e7233 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #695426 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.22:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b89242 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 #a9873d 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

#a9873d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a9873d
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #a9873d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a9873d-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md