Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#8a4724
#8a4724
hex
#8a4724rgb
rgb(138, 71, 36)hsl
hsl(21, 59%, 34%)oklch
oklch(0.474 0.103 46.4)Closest name: saddlebrown (#8b4513)Relative luminance 0.1004
Colors that go with #8a4724
Teal, Champagne and Goldenrod 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 #8a4724 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 #8a4724, as the surface under it.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #8a4724 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Fireside, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a4724 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #8a4724: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a4724: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Bookshop and Typewriter put Slate Gray beside #8a4724, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a4724: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8a4724
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a4724 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.98:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.01:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a4724 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8a4724 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a4724
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 #8a4724 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a4724-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?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