Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#8a916e
#8a916e
hex
#8a916ergb
rgb(138, 145, 110)hsl
hsl(72, 14%, 50%)oklch
oklch(0.641 0.051 117)Closest name: Bullfrog (#8a966a)Relative luminance 0.2678
Colors that go with #8a916e
Charcoal, Medium Purple and Blush Pink 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 #8a916e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #8a916e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #8a916e, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #8a916e in 5 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #8a916e, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8a916e: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8a916e in 4 real palettes, including Diner and Five Guys's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8a916e in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #8a916e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a916e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.3:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.36:1 | 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 #8a916e 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a916e
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 #8a916e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a916e-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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