Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#8d4d3f
#8d4d3f
hex
#8d4d3frgb
rgb(141, 77, 63)hsl
hsl(11, 38%, 40%)oklch
oklch(0.494 0.09 33.4)Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1133
Colors that go with #8d4d3f
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 #8d4d3f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8d4d3f, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8d4d3f in 4 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8d4d3f in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Cider, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #8d4d3f in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Harvest, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8d4d3f in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8d4d3f in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Wayfair's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8d4d3f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8d4d3f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8d4d3f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.43:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.27:1 | 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 #8d4d3f 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
#8d4d3f reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d4d3f
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 #8d4d3f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8d4d3f-c4a89c-62cbab-2d281f-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