Color
#855a42
#855a42rgb(133, 90, 66)hsl(21, 34%, 39%)oklch(0.508 0.067 49.9)Colors that go with #855a42
Teal, 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #855a42 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #855a42.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #855a42: 4 real palettes, including Bakery and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #855a42 in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #855a42 in 6 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #855a42 in 4 real palettes, including Aesop's brand system and Magazine Ochre, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #855a42: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Oatmeal, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #855a42: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #855a42
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #855a42 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.93:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.54:1 | 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 #855a42 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
#855a42 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #855a42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/855a42-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?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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