Color

#8e4943

#8e4943
hex#8e4943
rgbrgb(142, 73, 67)
hslhsl(5, 36%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.489 0.095 26.3)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1092

Colors that go with #8e4943

Teal, 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.

Real palettes that use #8e4943

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#43888e

#8e4362 · #8e6f43

#438e49 · #49438e

Split-complementary

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#438e6f · #43628e

#628e43 · #43888e · #6f438e

Contrast

#8e4943 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.6:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #874640 as the text (7.05:1)
Aaon black
3.18:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #af5d55 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #c48882 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d6d6d6 (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e4943 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

#8e4943 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e4943
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 #8e4943 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e4943-c4a49c-62cba1-2d261f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md