Color
#8b4160
#8b4160rgb(139, 65, 96)hsl(335, 36%, 40%)oklch(0.48 0.107 355.5)Colors that go with #8b4160
Teal, Champagne and Royal Blue 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8b4160 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 Darkroom and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8b4160, as the surface under it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8b4160 in 4 real palettes, including Chase's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8b4160: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Typewriter and Bookshop put Slate Gray beside #8b4160, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8b4160 in 17 real palettes, including Blush and Darkroom, as that palette's text colour.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #8b4160: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8b4160: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8b4160
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8b4160 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.95:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.02:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b4160 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
#8b4160 reads as warm. 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 #8b4160 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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