Color
#8a5e4c
#8a5e4crgb(138, 94, 76)hsl(17, 29%, 42%)oklch(0.524 0.064 43.1)Colors that go with #8a5e4c
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 #8a5e4c 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 #8a5e4c, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8a5e4c: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Riverbed, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a5e4c in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a5e4c in 5 real palettes, including GitHub's brand system and Wayfair's brand system, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a5e4c: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Typewriter put Slate Gray beside #8a5e4c, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a5e4c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8a5e4c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a5e4c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.55:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.79:1 | 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 #8a5e4c 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
#8a5e4c 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 #8a5e4c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8a5e4c-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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