Color

#8a6a76

#8a6a76
hex#8a6a76
rgbrgb(138, 106, 118)
hslhsl(338, 13%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.56 0.044 354.2)
Closest name: Acoustic Brown (#766b69)Relative luminance 0.1702

Colors that go with #8a6a76

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.

Real palettes that use #8a6a76

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6a8a7f

#8a6a86 · #8a6f6a

#768a6a · #6a768a

Split-complementary

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#6a8a6f · #6a868a

#868a6a · #6a8a7f · #6f6a8a

Contrast

#8a6a76 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.77:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6b525b as the text (7.04:1)
Aaon black
4.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d6d79 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #a88f98 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a6a76 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

#8a6a76 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a6a76
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 #8a6a76 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a6a76-c49ca6-62cb72-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md