Color

#855b00

#855b00
hex#855b00
rgbrgb(133, 91, 0)
hslhsl(41, 100%, 26%)
oklchoklch(0.503 0.105 77.5)
Closest name: Alligator (#886600)Relative luminance 0.1247

Colors that go with #855b00

Royal Blue, Champagne 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.

Real palettes that use #855b00

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#002a85

#851800 · #6c8500

#00855b · #5b0085

Split-complementary

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#006c85 · #180085

#008518 · #002a85 · #85006c

Contrast

#855b00 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.01:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #755000 as the text (7.23:1)
Aaon black
3.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9e6c00 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #cc8b00 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e0e0e0 (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #855b00 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

#855b00 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #855b00
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 #855b00 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/855b00-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md