Color

#ba994a

#ba994a
hex#ba994a
rgbrgb(186, 153, 74)
hslhsl(42, 45%, 51%)
oklchoklch(0.697 0.105 86.7)
Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3372

Colors that go with #ba994a

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Burlywood 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4a6cba

#ba604a · #a4ba4a

#4aba99 · #994aba

Split-complementary

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#4aa4ba · #604aba

#4aba60 · #4a6cba · #ba4aa4

Contrast

#ba994a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d7235 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #685427 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.74:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ba994a 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

#ba994a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ba994a
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 #ba994a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ba994a-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md