Color
#85540a
#85540argb(133, 84, 10)hsl(36, 86%, 28%)oklch(0.49 0.103 69.4)Colors that go with #85540a
Champagne, Hunter Green and Rust 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #85540a, as the surface under it.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #85540a in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
analogousshippedRust is #85540a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #85540a: 5 real palettes, including Homestead and Darkroom, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Bookshop and Clay & Linen put Slate Gray beside #85540a, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #85540a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #85540a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #85540a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #85540a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85540a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.42:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.27:1 | 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 #85540a 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
#85540a reads as warm, vivid, dark. 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 #85540a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/85540a-c4b99c-62bfcb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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