Color
#8a653d
#8a653drgb(138, 101, 61)hsl(31, 39%, 39%)oklch(0.536 0.073 67.3)Colors that go with #8a653d
Charcoal, Champagne and Denim 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8a653d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8a653d, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a653d: 6 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a653d in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #8a653d, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a653d: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #8a653d in 4 real palettes, including Mushroom and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #8a653d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #8a653d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a653d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.24:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.01:1 | 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 #8a653d 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
#8a653d reads as warm. 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 #8a653d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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