Named color

Annatto

#8c5341

hex#8c5341

rgbrgb(140, 83, 65)

hslhsl(14, 37%, 40%)

oklchoklch(0.503 0.082 38.3)

Relative luminance 0.1214

Warm

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Annatto on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.

Tints & shades

Tints — toward white

a15e4a b26c57 ba7c69 c48e7e cda093 d7b3a8 e0c5bd e9d4ce f2e7e3 fcf9f8

Shades — toward black

7e4a3a 734435 653b2f 5b352a 4d2d23 3f251d 341f18 261712 1c100d 0e0806

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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8c5341 407a8c

#407a8c

Analogous

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8c5341 8c4054 8c7840

#8c4054 · #8c7840

Triadic

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8c5341 408c52 52408c

#408c52 · #52408c

Split-complementary

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8c5341 408c78 40548c

#408c78 · #40548c

Tetradic

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8c5341 548c40 407a8c 78408c

#548c40 · #407a8c · #78408c

Contrast

Annatto as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	6.12:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #7e4a3a as the text (7.17:1)
Aaon black	3.43:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #a8624d as the text (4.52:1) AAA: use #c08877 as the text (7.03:1) AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.55:1)

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

Annatto reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

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mcpConnect your agent — build around Annatto

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 #8c5341 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8c5341-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md