Paper & Pine
Open in tool →Deep pine on paper-white with a marmalade accent — a quiet, sustainable-brand palette that isn't beige.
Color
#8ba295
#8ba295
hex
#8ba295rgb
rgb(139, 162, 149)hsl
hsl(146, 11%, 59%)oklch
oklch(0.691 0.032 160.7)Closest name: Japanese Bonsai (#829f96)Relative luminance 0.335
Colors that go with #8ba295
Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #8ba295: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #8ba295, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #8ba295 in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #8ba295, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8ba295: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8ba295 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8ba295: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Terracotta #e2725b
triadicshippedTerracotta completes a triad with #8ba295 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #8ba295
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8ba295 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.73:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.7:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8ba295 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8ba295
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8ba295 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8ba295-a2beb1-ce59d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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