Color
#8a6256
#8a6256rgb(138, 98, 86)hsl(14, 23%, 44%)oklch(0.535 0.056 37.4)Colors that go with #8a6256
Teal, Champagne and Hunter 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8a6256 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 #8a6256, as that palette's text colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a6256 in 6 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #8a6256, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a6256 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 #8a6256 in 5 real palettes, including Aesop's brand system and Gallery, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a6256: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a6256: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8a6256
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a6256 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.3:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.96:1 | 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 #8a6256 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
#8a6256 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 #8a6256 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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