Color
#8e8a15
#8e8a15rgb(142, 138, 21)hsl(58, 74%, 32%)oklch(0.617 0.127 107.4)Colors that go with #8e8a15
Charcoal, Champagne and Dark Olive Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8e8a15: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #8e8a15, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8e8a15 in 4 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8e8a15: 6 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8e8a15 in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8e8a15 in 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Subaru's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #8e8a15: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
complementaryMedium Slate Blue sits directly opposite #8e8a15 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #8e8a15
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8e8a15 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.62:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.8:1 | 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 #8e8a15 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
#8e8a15 reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #8e8a15 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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