Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#836d67
#836d67
hex
#836d67rgb
rgb(131, 109, 103)hsl
hsl(13, 12%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.554 0.03 35.7)Closest name: Anchovy (#756f6b)Relative luminance 0.1674
Colors that go with #836d67
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #836d67 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #836d67, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #836d67: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #836d67: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #836d67 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #836d67 in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Undergrowth, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Paramount+'s brand system put Midnight Blue beside #836d67, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #836d67, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #836d67
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #836d67 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.83:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.35:1 | 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 #836d67 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
#836d67 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #836d67
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 #836d67 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/836d67-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-f1e9eb?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