Color

#8a4542

#8a4542
hex#8a4542
rgbrgb(138, 69, 66)
hslhsl(2, 35%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.476 0.095 23.8)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1005

Colors that go with #8a4542

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 #8a4542

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#42878a

#8a4264 · #8a6842

#428a45 · #45428a

Split-complementary

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#428a68 · #42648a

#648a42 · #42878a · #68428a

Contrast

#8a4542 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.98:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #864341 as the text (7.26:1)
Aaon black
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #af5d5a as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #c38583 as the text (7:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a4542 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

#8a4542 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a4542
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 #8a4542 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a4542-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md