Color

#8d5453

#8d5453
hex#8d5453
rgbrgb(141, 84, 83)
hslhsl(1, 26%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.511 0.076 21.2)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1263

Colors that go with #8d5453

Teal, 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.

Real palettes that use #8d5453

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#538c8d

#8d536f · #8d7153

#538d54 · #54538d

Split-complementary

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#538d71 · #536f8d

#6f8d53 · #538c8d · #71538d

Contrast

#8d5453 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7d4a4a as the text (7.12:1)
Aaon black
3.53:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a36362 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #bb8c8b as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (4.51:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d5453 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

#8d5453 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d5453
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 #8d5453 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d5453-c4a19c-62cb9a-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md