Harvest
Open in tool →Pumpkin, straw and burnt gold on parchment — the autumn palette that still feels like a product, not a place-mat.
Color
#af490d
#af490d
hex
#af490drgb
rgb(175, 73, 13)hsl
hsl(22, 86%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.533 0.148 44.5)Closest name: Rust (#b7410e)Relative luminance 0.1391
Colors that go with #af490d
Crimson, Royal Blue and Sea 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.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #af490d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #af490d: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #af490d — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #af490d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #af490d in 6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Woodsmoke — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #af490d in 6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Magazine Ochre — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #af490d in 9 real palettes, including Campbell's's brand system and State Farm's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #af490d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #af490d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #af490d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.55:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.78:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #af490d as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#af490d reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #af490d
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #af490d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/af490d-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md