Color
#8c4e45
#8c4e45rgb(140, 78, 69)hsl(8, 34%, 41%)oklch(0.495 0.085 29.2)Colors that go with #8c4e45
Teal, Champagne and Dark Olive 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8c4e45 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8c4e45, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8c4e45 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Cider, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #8c4e45 in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Harvest, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8c4e45 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8c4e45 in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8c4e45: 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8c4e45: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8c4e45
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8c4e45 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.38:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.29:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8c4e45 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
#8c4e45 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8c4e45 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8c4e45-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?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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