Color

#8a5500

#8a5500
hex#8a5500
rgbrgb(138, 85, 0)
hslhsl(37, 100%, 27%)
oklchoklch(0.498 0.109 68.7)
Closest name: Brownie (#964b00)Relative luminance 0.119

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#00358a

#8a1000 · #7a8a00

#008a55 · #55008a

Split-complementary

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#007a8a · #10008a

#008a10 · #00358a · #8a007a

Contrast

#8a5500 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.21:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7a4b00 as the text (7.41:1)
Aaon black
3.38:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a86800 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #d68400 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.62:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a5500 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

#8a5500 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a5500
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 #8a5500 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a5500-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md