Color

#8a7738

#8a7738
hex#8a7738
rgbrgb(138, 119, 56)
hslhsl(46, 42%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.573 0.086 92.8)
Closest name: Bay Leaf (#86793d)Relative luminance 0.1888

Colors that go with #8a7738

Royal Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #8a7738

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#384b8a

#8a4e38 · #748a38

#388a77 · #77388a

Split-complementary

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#38748a · #4e388a

#388a4e · #384b8a · #8a3874

Contrast

#8a7738 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #867337 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #655729 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (4.5:1)
Aaon black
4.78:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae9647 as the text (7.25:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8a7738 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

#8a7738 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a7738
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 #8a7738 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8a7738-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md