Color

#8a5142

#8a5142
hex#8a5142
rgbrgb(138, 81, 66)
hslhsl(12, 35%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.497 0.081 35.6)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1168

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#427b8a

#8a4258 · #8a7442

#428a51 · #51428a

Split-complementary

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#428a74 · #42588a

#588a42 · #427b8a · #74428a

Contrast

#8a5142 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.29:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7f4b3d as the text (7.06:1)
Aaon black
3.34:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a96351 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #c08a7c as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dbdbdb (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a5142 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

#8a5142 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a5142
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8a5142 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a5142-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md