Color

#8d4416

#8d4416
hex#8d4416
rgbrgb(141, 68, 22)
hslhsl(23, 73%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.472 0.114 48.5)
Closest name: saddlebrown (#8b4513)Relative luminance 0.0985

Colors that go with #8d4416

Steel Blue, 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 #8d4416

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#165f8d

#8d1624 · #8d7f16

#168d44 · #44168d

Split-complementary

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#168d7f · #16248d

#248d16 · #165f8d · #7f168d

Contrast

#8d4416 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.07:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b9591d as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #e17c3d as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d4416 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

#8d4416 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d4416
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 #8d4416 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d4416-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md