Color

#8a5b56

#8a5b56
hex#8a5b56
rgbrgb(138, 91, 86)
hslhsl(6, 23%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.521 0.063 26.1)
Closest name: Acorn (#7f5e50)Relative luminance 0.1356

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.

Real palettes that use #8a5b56

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#56858a

#8a566b · #8a7556

#568a5c · #5c568a

Split-complementary

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#568a75 · #566b8a

#6b8a56 · #56858a · #75568a

Contrast

#8a5b56 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.66:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #744d49 as the text (7.24:1)
Aaon black
3.71:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9d6862 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #b48c88 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.53:1)

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:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a5b56
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 #8a5b56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a5b56-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md