Color

#8f4253

#8f4253
hex#8f4253
rgbrgb(143, 66, 83)
hslhsl(347, 37%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.483 0.105 8)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.1036

Colors that go with #8f4253

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 #8f4253

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#428f7e

#8f4279 · #8f5842

#538f42 · #42538f

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#428f58 · #42798f

#798f42 · #428f7e · #58428f

Contrast

#8f4253 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.84:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c4051 as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #b35b6e as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #c78593 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d4d4d4 (4.61:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8f4253 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

#8f4253 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8f4253
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 #8f4253 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8f4253-c49ca0-62cb82-2d221f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md