Color
#8a8351
#8a8351rgb(138, 131, 81)hsl(53, 26%, 43%)oklch(0.604 0.07 101.3)Colors that go with #8a8351
Charcoal, Medium Purple 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 #8a8351: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #8a8351 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #8a8351, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a8351: 9 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 #8a8351: 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 #8a8351 in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Kiln put Peru beside #8a8351, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8a8351 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8a8351
Tints & shades
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Contrast
| #8a8351 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.86:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.45:1 | 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 #8a8351 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
#8a8351 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #8a8351 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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