Color

#8c034a

#8c034a
hex#8c034a
rgbrgb(140, 3, 74)
hslhsl(329, 96%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.417 0.167 359)
Closest name: Aristocratic Velvet (#980b4a)Relative luminance 0.0613

Colors that go with #8c034a

Teal, Crimson and Taupe 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 #8c034a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#038c45

#8a038c · #8c0305

#4a8c03 · #034a8c

Split-complementary

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#058c03 · #038c8a

#8c8a03 · #038c45 · #03058c

Contrast

#8c034a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
9.43:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.23:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e60579 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #fc55ab as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #b5b5b5 (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #dedede (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8c034a 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

#8c034a reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8c034a
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 #8c034a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8c034a-c49cac-62cb62-2d1f21-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md