Color

#8a3a38

#8a3a38
hex#8a3a38
rgbrgb(138, 58, 56)
hslhsl(1, 42%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.456 0.11 23.9)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0871

Colors that go with #8a3a38

Teal, Champagne and Crimson 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 #8a3a38

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#38888a

#8a3860 · #8a6238

#388a3a · #3a388a

Split-complementary

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#388a62 · #38608a

#608a38 · #38888a · #62388a

Contrast

#8a3a38 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.66:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.74:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b95655 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #cb8280 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.02:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a3a38 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

#8a3a38 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a3a38
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 #8a3a38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a3a38-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md