Color
#8a5161
#8a5161rgb(138, 81, 97)hsl(343, 26%, 43%)oklch(0.505 0.079 2.2)Colors that go with #8a5161
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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8a5161 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 BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #8a5161, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #8a5161 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a5161: 4 real palettes, including Campus and HP's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a5161 in 5 real palettes, including GitHub's brand system and Console Light, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8a5161 in 4 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Gallery, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a5161: 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a5161: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a5161 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.12:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.43:1 | 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 #8a5161 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
#8a5161 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8a5161 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8a5161-c49ca3-62cb7b-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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