Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#8f4e28
#8f4e28
hex
#8f4e28rgb
rgb(143, 78, 40)hsl
hsl(22, 56%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.494 0.102 49)Closest name: Ancient Chest (#99522b)Relative luminance 0.1144
Colors that go with #8f4e28
Steel Blue, 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #8f4e28 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #8f4e28 in 5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #8f4e28 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and BrandSweets's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8f4e28 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #8f4e28 in 4 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Darkroom, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #8f4e28 in 8 real palettes, including Typewriter and Bookshop, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #8f4e28: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8f4e28: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8f4e28
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8f4e28 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.39:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.29:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8f4e28 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
Fonts for this mood
#8f4e28 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8f4e28
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8f4e28 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8f4e28-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md