Bakery
Open in tool →Crust browns and butter on a flour-white surface — soft, appetizing, and nothing artificial.
Color
#854c38
#854c38
hex
#854c38rgb
rgb(133, 76, 56)hsl
hsl(16, 41%, 37%)oklch
oklch(0.479 0.084 40)Closest name: Annatto (#8c5341)Relative luminance 0.1044
Colors that go with #854c38
Teal, Champagne and Goldenrod 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 #854c38 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #854c38, as the surface under it.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #854c38 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Fireside, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #854c38 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #854c38 in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #854c38: 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Typewriter put Slate Gray beside #854c38, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #854c38: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #854c38
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #854c38 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.8:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.09:1 | 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 #854c38 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
#854c38 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #854c38
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 #854c38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/854c38-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-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