Color

#8a5d47

#8a5d47
hex#8a5d47
rgbrgb(138, 93, 71)
hslhsl(20, 32%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.521 0.068 46.8)
Closest name: Acorn (#7f5e50)Relative luminance 0.1369

Colors that go with #8a5d47

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 #8a5d47

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#47748a

#8a4752 · #8a7f47

#478a5d · #5d478a

Split-complementary

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#478a7f · #47528a

#528a47 · #47748a · #7f478a

Contrast

#8a5d47 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.62:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #76503d as the text (7.03:1)
Aaon black
3.74:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9b6950 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #ba8e78 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.5:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a5d47 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

#8a5d47 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a5d47
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 #8a5d47 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a5d47-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md