Color

#855e0a

#855e0a
hex#855e0a
rgbrgb(133, 94, 10)
hslhsl(41, 86%, 28%)
oklchoklch(0.51 0.102 79.3)
Closest name: Alligator (#886600)Relative luminance 0.1301

Colors that go with #855e0a

Royal Blue, 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.

Real palettes that use #855e0a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#0a3185

#85210a · #6e850a

#0a855e · #5e0a85

Split-complementary

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#0a6e85 · #210a85

#0a8521 · #0a3185 · #850a6e

Contrast

#855e0a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.83:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #725009 as the text (7.33:1)
Aaon black
3.6:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #9d6f0c as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #c78d0f as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e3e3e3 (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #855e0a 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

#855e0a reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #855e0a
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 #855e0a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/855e0a-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md