Color

#8d5949

#8d5949
hex#8d5949
rgbrgb(141, 89, 73)
hslhsl(14, 32%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.518 0.074 37.9)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1329

Colors that go with #8d5949

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 #8d5949

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#497d8d

#8d495b · #8d7b49

#498d59 · #59498d

Split-complementary

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#498d7b · #495b8d

#5b8d49 · #497d8d · #7b498d

Contrast

#8d5949 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.74:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #794c3e as the text (7.2:1)
Aaon black
3.66:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a26653 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #bb8b7c as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d5949 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

#8d5949 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d5949
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 #8d5949 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d5949-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md