Color
#8c8240
#8c8240rgb(140, 130, 64)hsl(52, 37%, 40%)oklch(0.601 0.088 100.8)Colors that go with #8c8240
Charcoal, Champagne and Denim 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 body-text near-black for #8c8240: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #8c8240, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8c8240: 7 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #8c8240: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8c8240 in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Kiln put Peru beside #8c8240, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8c8240 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
complementaryMedium Slate Blue sits directly opposite #8c8240 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #8c8240
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8c8240 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.9:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.38:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8c8240 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
#8c8240 reads as warm. 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 #8c8240 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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