Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#8a6856
#8a6856
hex
#8a6856rgb
rgb(138, 104, 86)hsl
hsl(21, 23%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.547 0.052 49.1)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1598
Colors that go with #8a6856
Charcoal, Teal and Champagne 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 #8a6856: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8a6856 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 #8a6856, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a6856: 7 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a6856 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #8a6856, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a6856 in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Slate Workspace, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8a6856 in 5 real palettes, including Harvest and Gallery, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8a6856
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a6856 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.01:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.2:1 | 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 #8a6856 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8a6856 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a6856
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8a6856 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a6856-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md