Color

#8b5250

#8b5250
hex#8b5250
rgbrgb(139, 82, 80)
hslhsl(2, 27%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.504 0.077 22.3)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.121

Colors that go with #8b5250

Teal, Champagne and Hunter Green 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 #8b5250

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#50898b

#8b506c · #8b7050

#508b52 · #52508b

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#508b70 · #506c8b

#6c8b50 · #50898b · #70508b

Contrast

#8b5250 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.14:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7e4a49 as the text (7.09:1)
Aaon black
3.42:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a46360 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #ba8987 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b5250 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

#8b5250 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b5250
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 #8b5250 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b5250-c4a29c-62cb9c-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md