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.
Color
#8f705b
#8f705b
hex
#8f705brgb
rgb(143, 112, 91)hsl
hsl(24, 22%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.57 0.05 55.6)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1818
Colors that go with #8f705b
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #8f705b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Estate put Blush Pink beside #8f705b, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8f705b, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8f705b: 7 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8f705b in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #8f705b, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8f705b in 4 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Subaru's brand system, as the accent.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #8f705b 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 #8f705b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8f705b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.53:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.64:1 | 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 #8f705b 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
Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Fonts for this mood
#8f705b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8f705b
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 #8f705b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8f705b-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-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