Color

#8d686f

#8d686f
hex#8d686f
rgbrgb(141, 104, 111)
hslhsl(349, 15%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.557 0.048 6.2)
Closest name: Acoustic Brown (#766b69)Relative luminance 0.1671

Colors that go with #8d686f

Charcoal, Teal and Blush Pink 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 #8d686f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#688d86

#8d6881 · #8d7468

#6f8d68 · #686f8d

Split-complementary

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#688d74 · #68818d

#818d68 · #688d86 · #74688d

Contrast

#8d686f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.84:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6d5055 as the text (7.17:1)
Aaon black
4.34:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #936c73 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #ad9095 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (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 #8d686f 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

#8d686f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d686f
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 #8d686f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d686f-c49c9f-62cb85-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md