Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#8a462e
#8a462e
hex
#8a462ergb
rgb(138, 70, 46)hsl
hsl(16, 50%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.474 0.1 39.9)Closest name: saddlebrown (#8b4513)Relative luminance 0.0998
Colors that go with #8a462e
Teal, Champagne and Copper 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8a462e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8a462e, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8a462e: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Chipotle's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #8a462e in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Harvest, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a462e in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a462e in 5 real palettes, including Bose's brand system and Subaru's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a462e: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a462e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8a462e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a462e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.01:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 3:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a462e as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8a462e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a462e
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8a462e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a462e-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md