Color

#853256

#853256
hex#853256
rgbrgb(133, 50, 86)
hslhsl(334, 45%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.446 0.12 356.1)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0794

Colors that go with #853256

Teal, Taupe 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 #853256

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#328561

#853280 · #853832

#568532 · #325685

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#328538 · #328085

#808532 · #328561 · #383285

Contrast

#853256 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
8.11:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.59:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bc4e7d as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #ce7ea0 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c2c2c2 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #853256 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

#853256 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #853256
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 #853256 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/853256-c49ca9-62cb6b-2d1f1f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md