Color

#8a384e

#8a384e
hex#8a384e
rgbrgb(138, 56, 78)
hslhsl(344, 42%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.459 0.114 6)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0878

Colors that go with #8a384e

Teal, Champagne and Denim 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 #8a384e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#388a74

#8a3877 · #8a4b38

#4e8a38 · #384e8a

Split-complementary

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#388a4b · #38778a

#778a38 · #388a74 · #4b388a

Contrast

#8a384e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.62:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.76:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b95570 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #cb8094 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.11:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a384e 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

#8a384e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a384e
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 #8a384e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a384e-c49ca2-62cb7c-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md