Color

#8a4245

#8a4245
hex#8a4245
rgbrgb(138, 66, 69)
hslhsl(357, 35%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.472 0.098 19)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0973

Colors that go with #8a4245

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 #8a4245

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#428a86

#8a426a · #8a6242

#468a42 · #42468a

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#428a62 · #426a8a

#6a8a42 · #428a86 · #62428a

Contrast

#8a4245 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.13:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b15d61 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #c5878a as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a4245 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

#8a4245 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a4245
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 #8a4245 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a4245-c49f9c-62cb93-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md