Color

#8a515a

#8a515a
hex#8a515a
rgbrgb(138, 81, 90)
hslhsl(351, 26%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.503 0.077 10)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1203

Colors that go with #8a515a

Teal, Champagne and Dark Olive 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.

Real palettes that use #8a515a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#518a82

#8a5176 · #8a6551

#5a8a51 · #515a8a

Split-complementary

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#518a65 · #51768a

#768a51 · #518a82 · #65518a

Contrast

#8a515a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.17:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7d4a51 as the text (7.07:1)
Aaon black
3.41:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a3626b as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #bb8b92 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a515a 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

#8a515a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a515a
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 #8a515a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a515a-c49c9e-62cb89-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md