Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Color
#8a3519
#8a3519
hex
#8a3519rgb
rgb(138, 53, 25)hsl
hsl(15, 69%, 32%)oklch
oklch(0.444 0.123 38)Closest name: saddlebrown (#8b4513)Relative luminance 0.0802
Colors that go with #8a3519
Teal, Goldenrod and Sage 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8a3519 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #8a3519 in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Fireside, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #8a3519 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #8a3519 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Typewriter, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #8a3519 in 3 real palettes, including Darkroom and Woodsmoke, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a3519 in 3 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a3519: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a3519 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.06:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.6:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a3519 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
#8a3519 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a3519
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 #8a3519 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a3519-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?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