Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#8e451a
#8e451a
hex
#8e451argb
rgb(142, 69, 26)hsl
hsl(22, 69%, 33%)oklch
oklch(0.476 0.113 47.6)Closest name: saddlebrown (#8b4513)Relative luminance 0.1008
Colors that go with #8e451a
Steel Blue, Champagne and Crimson 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #8e451a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8e451a, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #8e451a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8e451a in 4 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #8e451a in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Fireside, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8e451a in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8e451a: 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8e451a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8e451a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8e451a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.96:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.02:1 | 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 #8e451a 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
#8e451a reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e451a
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 #8e451a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8e451a-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.
Machine-readable: color.md