Color

#855d42

#855d42
hex#855d42
rgbrgb(133, 93, 66)
hslhsl(24, 34%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.514 0.066 54.7)
Closest name: Acorn (#7f5e50)Relative luminance 0.1321

Colors that go with #855d42

Champagne, Copper and Hunter Green 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#426a85

#854248 · #857f42

#42855d · #5d4285

Split-complementary

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#42857f · #424885

#488542 · #426a85 · #7f4285

Contrast

#855d42 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.77:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #745139 as the text (7.05:1)
Aaon black
3.64:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9a6b4c as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #b88d6f as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.62:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #855d42 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

#855d42 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #855d42
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 #855d42 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/855d42-c4b19c-62cbc2-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md