#856757 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	5.15:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #6c5447 as the text (7.01:1)
Aaon black	4.08:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #8e6e5d as the text (4.54:1) AAA: use #ac9080 as the text (7.06:1) AA: or shift the background to #f0f0f0 (4.52:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856757 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

c58b4a 8a6a55 e5c48a 1e1512 f3e9dd

Coffee Bar

Open in tool →

Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.

Dark Warm LuxuryFood

Fonts for this mood

#856757 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

Warm fonts →Editorial fonts →Elegant fonts →

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856757

live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp

try this prompt

›analyze #856757 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856757-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md