Color
#8c545e
#8c545ergb(140, 84, 94)hsl(349, 25%, 44%)oklch(0.512 0.075 8.5)Colors that go with #8c545e
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 #8c545e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8c545e, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
triadicshippedDark Olive Green completes a triad with #8c545e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8c545e: 5 real palettes, including Campus and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8c545e in 6 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8c545e in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8c545e: 7 real palettes, including Darkroom and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8c545e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8c545e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8c545e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.92:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.54:1 | 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 #8c545e 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
#8c545e 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 #8c545e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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