Color

#842e38

#842e38
hex#842e38
rgbrgb(132, 46, 56)
hslhsl(353, 48%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.43 0.118 16.7)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0715

Colors that go with #842e38

Teal, Champagne and Slate Gray 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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#2e847a

#842e63 · #844f2e

#38842e · #2e3884

Split-complementary

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#2e844f · #2e6384

#63842e · #2e847a · #4f2e84

Contrast

#842e38 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.65:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c14e5b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #d27f88 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #bdbdbd (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #842e38 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

#842e38 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #842e38
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 #842e38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/842e38-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md