Color

#8d5249

#8d5249
hex#8d5249
rgbrgb(141, 82, 73)
hslhsl(8, 32%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.505 0.081 29.5)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1218

Colors that go with #8d5249

Teal, Champagne and Dark Olive 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.

Real palettes that use #8d5249

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#49848d

#8d4962 · #8d7449

#498d52 · #52498d

Split-complementary

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#498d74 · #49628d

#628d49 · #49848d · #74498d

Contrast

#8d5249 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.11:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #804a42 as the text (7.06:1)
Aaon black
3.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a86257 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #bf8b82 as the text (7.23:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d5249 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

#8d5249 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d5249
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 #8d5249 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d5249-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md