Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Color
#8d362a
#8d362a
hex
#8d362argb
rgb(141, 54, 42)hsl
hsl(7, 54%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.453 0.121 30.3)Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0847
Colors that go with #8d362a
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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #8d362a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8d362a, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8d362a in 5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8d362a: 5 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #8d362a in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Fireside, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8d362a in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8d362a: 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8d362a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8d362a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8d362a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.8:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.69:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d362a as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#8d362a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d362a
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8d362a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8d362a-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md