Color
#8e720b
#8e720brgb(142, 114, 11)hsl(47, 86%, 30%)oklch(0.563 0.112 91.1)Colors that go with #8e720b
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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #8e720b 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 Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #8e720b, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8e720b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8e720b: 6 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8e720b in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #8e720b, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #8e720b: 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #8e720b in 4 real palettes, including Mushroom and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #8e720b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8e720b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.6:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.56:1 | 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 #8e720b 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
#8e720b reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #8e720b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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