Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Color
#8a756a
#8a756a
hex
#8a756argb
rgb(138, 117, 106)hsl
hsl(21, 13%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.579 0.031 49.3)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1917
Colors that go with #8a756a
Charcoal, Champagne and Peru 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 #8a756a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #8a756a in 5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #8a756a in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust is paired with #8a756a in 4 real palettes, including Gallery and Noir Beauty, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #8a756a in 6 real palettes, including Graphite and Forest Floor, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #8a756a in 4 real palettes, including Mushroom and Sepia Mono, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8a756a in 23 real palettes, including Mushroom and Greige, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #8a756a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a756a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.34:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.83:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a756a 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
#8a756a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a756a
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 #8a756a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a756a-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