Color

#8a566e

#8a566e
hex#8a566e
rgbrgb(138, 86, 110)
hslhsl(332, 23%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.519 0.076 350.9)
Closest name: Dr Who (#78587d)Relative luminance 0.1318

Colors that go with #8a566e

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 #8a566e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#568a72

#8a5688 · #8a5856

#6e8a56 · #566e8a

Split-complementary

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#568a58 · #56888a

#888a56 · #568a72 · #58568a

Contrast

#8a566e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.77:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #774b5f as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
3.64:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9f6580 as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #b68b9f as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.63:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a566e 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

#8a566e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a566e
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 #8a566e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a566e-c49caa-62cb67-2d1f20-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md