Color
#8a8819
#8a8819rgb(138, 136, 25)hsl(59, 69%, 32%)oklch(0.609 0.124 108.5)Colors that go with #8a8819
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 #8a8819: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #8a8819 in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Forest Floor, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #8a8819 in 5 real palettes, including Jack Daniel's's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #8a8819 in 4 real palettes, including Atelier and Mushroom, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8a8819 in 16 real palettes, including Cider and Clean Beauty, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
complementaryMedium Slate Blue sits directly opposite #8a8819 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
split-complementshippedDodger Blue is a split-complement of #8a8819: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate is paired with #8a8819 in 3 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Wellness, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8a8819
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a8819 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.74:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.62:1 | 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 #8a8819 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
#8a8819 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 #8a8819 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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