Color
#8a811e
#8a811ergb(138, 129, 30)hsl(55, 64%, 33%)oklch(0.594 0.115 104)Colors that go with #8a811e
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 #8a811e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #8a811e, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a811e: 7 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #8a811e: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8a811e in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #8a811e, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #8a811e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8a811e: 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8a811e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a811e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.01:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.24:1 | 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 #8a811e 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
#8a811e reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #8a811e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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