Color

#8d3039

#8d3039
hex#8d3039
rgbrgb(141, 48, 57)
hslhsl(354, 49%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.448 0.126 18.2)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0807

Colors that go with #8d3039

Teal, Champagne and Crimson 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 #8d3039

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#308d83

#8d3068 · #8d5530

#398d30 · #30398d

Split-complementary

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#308d55 · #30688d

#688d30 · #308d83 · #55308d

Contrast

#8d3039 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.03:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.61:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c3505c as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #d37e86 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d3039 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

#8d3039 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d3039
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 #8d3039 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d3039-c49d9c-62cb8e-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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