Color

#836d2a

#836d2a
hex#836d2a
rgbrgb(131, 109, 42)
hslhsl(45, 51%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.542 0.09 90.8)
Closest name: Aged Antics (#886b2e)Relative luminance 0.1593

Colors that go with #836d2a

Charcoal, Royal Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #836d2a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2a4183

#83412a · #6d832a

#2a836d · #6d2a83

Split-complementary

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#2a6d83 · #412a83

#2a8341 · #2a4183 · #832a6d

Contrast

#836d2a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.02:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #685622 as the text (7.14:1)
Aaon black
4.19:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b732d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #b19339 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (4.6:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #836d2a 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

#836d2a reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #836d2a
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 #836d2a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/836d2a-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md