Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#8d7a62
#8d7a62
hex
#8d7a62rgb
rgb(141, 122, 98)hsl
hsl(33, 18%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.591 0.042 73.3)Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2046
Colors that go with #8d7a62
Charcoal, Champagne and Denim 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8d7a62: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8d7a62, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8d7a62: 8 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #8d7a62: 5 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Studio Grey, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8d7a62 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #8d7a62, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8d7a62 in 4 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Subaru's brand system, as the accent.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #8d7a62 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #8d7a62
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8d7a62 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.12:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.09:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d7a62 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
#8d7a62 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8d7a62
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8d7a62 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8d7a62-c4b79c-62c4cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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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