Color

#8b8537

#8b8537
hex#8b8537
rgbrgb(139, 133, 55)
hslhsl(56, 43%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.606 0.1 104.9)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2254

Colors that go with #8b8537

Charcoal, Dodger Blue and Champagne 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 #8b8537

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#373d8b

#8b5b37 · #668b37

#378b85 · #85378b

Split-complementary

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#37668b · #5b378b

#378b5b · #373d8b · #8b3766

Contrast

#8b8537 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.81:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7c7731 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5824 as the text (7.33:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.51:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a09a40 as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8b8537 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

#8b8537 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b8537
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 #8b8537 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8b8537-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md