Color

#8a4243

#8a4243
hex#8a4243
rgbrgb(138, 66, 67)
hslhsl(359, 35%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.471 0.098 20.7)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.097

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#428a89

#8a4267 · #8a6542

#438a42 · #42438a

Split-complementary

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#428a65 · #42678a

#678a42 · #428a89 · #65428a

Contrast

#8a4243 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.14:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.94:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b15d5f as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #c58788 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a4243 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

#8a4243 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a4243
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8a4243 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a4243-c4a09c-62cb96-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md