Color

#8b4946

#8b4946
hex#8b4946
rgbrgb(139, 73, 70)
hslhsl(3, 33%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.485 0.09 23.7)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.107

Colors that go with #8b4946

Teal, Champagne and Crimson 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.

Real palettes that use #8b4946

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#46888b

#8b4665 · #8b6c46

#468b49 · #49468b

Split-complementary

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#468b6c · #46658b

#658b46 · #46888b · #6c468b

Contrast

#8b4946 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.69:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #844643 as the text (7.15:1)
Aaon black
3.14:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #ad605c as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #c18885 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.51:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b4946 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

#8b4946 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b4946
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8b4946 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b4946-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md