Color
#8d5535
#8d5535rgb(141, 85, 53)hsl(22, 45%, 38%)oklch(0.506 0.088 49.6)Colors that go with #8d5535
Royal Blue, Steel Blue and Champagne 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #8d5535: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #8d5535 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #8d5535.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8d5535 in 4 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Olive Grove.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8d5535 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8d5535: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Typewriter and Bookshop put Slate Gray beside #8d5535, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8d5535: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8d5535
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8d5535 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.03:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.48:1 | 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 #8d5535 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
#8d5535 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8d5535 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8d5535-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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