Color

#8a424b

#8a424b
hex#8a424b
rgbrgb(138, 66, 75)
hslhsl(353, 35%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.473 0.098 13.8)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0981

Colors that go with #8a424b

Teal, Champagne and Denim 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 #8a424b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#428a81

#8a426e · #8a5e42

#4b8a42 · #424b8a

Split-complementary

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#428a5e · #426e8a

#6e8a42 · #428a81 · #5e428a

Contrast

#8a424b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.09:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.96:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b15d67 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #c5878e as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a424b 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

#8a424b reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a424b
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 #8a424b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a424b-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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