Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#856657
#856657
hex
#856657rgb
rgb(133, 102, 87)hsl
hsl(20, 21%, 43%)oklch
oklch(0.537 0.046 47.1)Closest name: Bear Hug (#796359)Relative luminance 0.1518
Colors that go with #856657
Charcoal, Teal and Champagne 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 #856657: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #856657 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #856657, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #856657: 5 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856657: 6 real palettes, including Campus and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #856657 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #856657 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #856657, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #856657
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856657 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.2:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.04:1 | 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 #856657 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
#856657 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #856657
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #856657 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/856657-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md