Color

#8a5538

#8a5538
hex#8a5538
rgbrgb(138, 85, 56)
hslhsl(21, 42%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.503 0.082 48.8)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1219

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#386d8a

#8a3844 · #8a7d38

#388a55 · #55388a

Split-complementary

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#388a7d · #38448a

#448a38 · #386d8a · #7d388a

Contrast

#8a5538 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.11:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7b4c32 as the text (7.19:1)
Aaon black
3.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a76744 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #c2896b as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a5538 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

#8a5538 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a5538
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 #8a5538 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a5538-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md