Color

#856038

#856038
hex#856038
rgbrgb(133, 96, 56)
hslhsl(31, 41%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.519 0.074 67.1)
Closest name: Autumn Gold (#7d623c)Relative luminance 0.1364

Colors that go with #856038

Charcoal, 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 #856038

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#385d85

#853938 · #848538

#388560 · #603885

Split-complementary

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#388485 · #393885

#388539 · #385d85 · #853884

Contrast

#856038 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.63:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6f502f as the text (7.33:1)
Aaon black
3.73:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #976d3f as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #bb8e5d as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.51:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856038 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#856038 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856038
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 #856038 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856038-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md