Color

#8b5a55

#8b5a55
hex#8b5a55
rgbrgb(139, 90, 85)
hslhsl(6, 24%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.52 0.066 25.9)
Closest name: Acorn (#7f5e50)Relative luminance 0.1346

Colors that go with #8b5a55

Teal, Champagne and Copper 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 #8b5a55

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#55868b

#8b556b · #8b7655

#558b5b · #5b558b

Split-complementary

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#558b76 · #556b8b

#6b8b55 · #55868b · #76558b

Contrast

#8b5a55 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.69:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #784e4a as the text (7.03:1)
Aaon black
3.69:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9e6761 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #b58b87 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (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 #8b5a55 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

#8b5a55 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b5a55
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 #8b5a55 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b5a55-c4a59c-62cba3-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md