#8e755d as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	4.33:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #8b725b as the text (4.51:1) AAA: use #665442 as the text (7.21:1) AA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (4.58:1)
Aaon black	4.85:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #aa937d as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8e755d 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

7c3a1d 8a7358 2f5d50 faf6ef 2b2118

Bookshop

Open in tool →

Chestnut and forest on cream read like a cloth-bound spine; the palette recedes so covers and type do the talking.

Editorial Warm Elegant

Fonts for this mood

#8e755d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8e755d

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 #8e755d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8e755d-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md