Color

#8a3d51

#8a3d51
hex#8a3d51
rgbrgb(138, 61, 81)
hslhsl(344, 39%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.467 0.107 5.8)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0933

Colors that go with #8a3d51

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 #8a3d51

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3d8a76

#8a3d78 · #8a4f3d

#518a3d · #3d518a

Split-complementary

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#3d8a4f · #3d788a

#788a3d · #3d8a76 · #4f3d8a

Contrast

#8a3d51 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.32:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b65871 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #c98396 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fafafa (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 #8a3d51 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

#8a3d51 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a3d51
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 #8a3d51 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a3d51-c49ca2-62cb7c-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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