Color

#a98f42

#a98f42
hex#a98f42
rgbrgb(169, 143, 66)
hslhsl(45, 44%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.658 0.101 90.7)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2847

Colors that go with #a98f42

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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.

Real palettes that use #a98f42

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#425ba9

#a95b42 · #8fa942

#42a98f · #8f42a9

Split-complementary

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#428fa9 · #5b42a9

#42a95b · #425ba9 · #a9428f

Contrast

#a98f42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #887335 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #675728 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.69:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b09545 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 #a98f42 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

#a98f42 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a98f42
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 #a98f42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a98f42-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md