Color
#8a5542
#8a5542rgb(138, 85, 66)hsl(16, 35%, 40%)oklch(0.505 0.077 40.4)Colors that go with #8a5542
Teal, Champagne and Hunter 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 #8a5542 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8a5542, as the surface under it.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a5542 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a5542 in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a5542: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Typewriter and Clay & Linen put Slate Gray beside #8a5542, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #8a5542: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a5542: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8a5542
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a5542 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.07:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.46:1 | 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 #8a5542 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
#8a5542 reads as warm. 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 #8a5542 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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