Color
#8a5b56
#8a5b56rgb(138, 91, 86)hsl(6, 23%, 44%)oklch(0.521 0.063 26.1)Colors that go with #8a5b56
Teal, Champagne and Copper 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 #8a5b56 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 Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8a5b56, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8a5b56: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Riverbed, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a5b56 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a5b56 in 6 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8a5b56 in 4 real palettes, including Aesop's brand system and Magazine Ochre, as the supporting colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #8a5b56 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a5b56: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8a5b56
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a5b56 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.66:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.71:1 | 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 #8a5b56 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
#8a5b56 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 #8a5b56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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