Harvest
Open in tool →Pumpkin, straw and burnt gold on parchment — the autumn palette that still feels like a product, not a place-mat.
Color
#856a32
#856a32
hex
#856a32rgb
rgb(133, 106, 50)hsl
hsl(40, 45%, 36%)oklch
oklch(0.539 0.082 83.6)Closest name: Aged Antics (#886b2e)Relative luminance 0.1552
Colors that go with #856a32
Charcoal, Royal Blue 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 #856a32: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #856a32 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 Woodsmoke and Bramble put Champagne beside #856a32, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856a32: 6 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #856a32 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #856a32, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #856a32 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #856a32: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #856a32
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856a32 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.12:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.1:1 | 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 #856a32 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
#856a32 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #856a32
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 #856a32 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/856a32-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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