Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#8a5138
#8a5138
hex
#8a5138rgb
rgb(138, 81, 56)hsl
hsl(18, 42%, 38%)oklch
oklch(0.495 0.085 44)Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1157
Colors that go with #8a5138
Teal, Champagne and Hunter Green 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 #8a5138 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #8a5138, as the surface under it.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a5138 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a5138 in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Wayfair's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a5138: 6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Typewriter and Bookshop put Slate Gray beside #8a5138, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #8a5138: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a5138: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8a5138
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a5138 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.34:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.31:1 | 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 #8a5138 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
#8a5138 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a5138
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 #8a5138 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a5138-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-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