Color

#8d6916

#8d6916
hex#8d6916
rgbrgb(141, 105, 22)
hslhsl(42, 73%, 32%)
oklchoklch(0.543 0.104 82.8)
Closest name: Alligator (#886600)Relative luminance 0.1582

Colors that go with #8d6916

Royal Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #8d6916

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#163a8d

#8d2e16 · #758d16

#168d69 · #69168d

Split-complementary

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#16758d · #2e168d

#168d2e · #163a8d · #8d1675

Contrast

#8d6916 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.04:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6e5211 as the text (7.3:1)
Aaon black
4.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #967017 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #be8e1e as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f2f2f2 (4.5:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d6916 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#8d6916 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d6916
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 #8d6916 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8d6916-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md