Color
#8a3b38
#8a3b38rgb(138, 59, 56)hsl(2, 42%, 38%)oklch(0.458 0.109 24.5)Colors that go with #8a3b38
Royal Blue, Teal and Champagne 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #8a3b38 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8a3b38 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8a3b38, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8a3b38 in 4 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a3b38: 5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #8a3b38 in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Fireside, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a3b38: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a3b38: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8a3b38
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a3b38 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.6:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.76:1 | 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 #8a3b38 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
#8a3b38 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8a3b38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8a3b38-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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