Color

#8d5016

#8d5016
hex#8d5016
rgbrgb(141, 80, 22)
hslhsl(29, 73%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.494 0.106 58.6)
Closest name: Brownie (#964b00)Relative luminance 0.1146

Colors that go with #8d5016

Steel Blue, Champagne and Hunter Green 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#16548d

#8d1618 · #8d8b16

#168d50 · #50168d

Split-complementary

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#168d8b · #16188d

#188d16 · #16548d · #8b168d

Contrast

#8d5016 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.38:1passpassfail
Aaon black
3.29:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b0641c as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #dd7f27 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d9d9d9 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d5016 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

#8d5016 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d5016
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 #8d5016 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d5016-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md