Color
#853239
#853239rgb(133, 50, 57)hsl(355, 45%, 36%)oklch(0.437 0.114 18.1)Colors that go with #853239
Teal, Champagne and Crimson 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #853239 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #853239, as the text colour against it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #853239 in 6 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #853239: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Typewriter put Slate Gray beside #853239, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #853239 in 17 real palettes, including Cider and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #853239: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #853239: 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #853239
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #853239 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.36:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.51:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #853239 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
#853239 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #853239 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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