Color

#a99142

#a99142
hex#a99142
rgbrgb(169, 145, 66)
hslhsl(46, 44%, 46%)
oklchoklch(0.662 0.103 92.5)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2908

Colors that go with #a99142

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 #a99142

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#425aa9

#a95d42 · #8da942

#42a991 · #9142a9

Split-complementary

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#428da9 · #5d42a9

#42a95d · #425aa9 · #a9428d

Contrast

#a99142 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.08:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #887435 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #635527 as the text (7.34:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.82:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9443 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #a99142 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

#a99142 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a99142
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 #a99142 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a99142-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md