Color

#8e5259

#8e5259
hex#8e5259
rgbrgb(142, 82, 89)
hslhsl(353, 27%, 44%)
oklchoklch(0.51 0.08 12.8)
Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1251

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#528e87

#8e5277 · #8e6952

#598e52 · #52598e

Split-complementary

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#528e69 · #52778e

#778e52 · #528e87 · #69528e

Contrast

#8e5259 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #7e494f as the text (7.11:1)
Aaon black
3.5:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #a6646b as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #bc8a90 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (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 #8e5259 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

#8e5259 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e5259
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8e5259 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e5259-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md