Color
#856138
#856138rgb(133, 97, 56)hsl(32, 41%, 37%)oklch(0.521 0.074 68.6)Colors that go with #856138
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #856138: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #856138, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #856138: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856138: 6 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #856138 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #856138 in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #856138 in 4 real palettes, including Aesop's brand system and Harvest, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #856138 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #856138
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856138 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.58:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.76:1 | 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 #856138 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
#856138 reads as warm. 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 #856138 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/856138-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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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