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
#856b23
#856b23
hex
#856b23rgb
rgb(133, 107, 35)hsl
hsl(44, 58%, 33%)oklch
oklch(0.539 0.094 88.5)Closest name: Aged Antics (#886b2e)Relative luminance 0.1562
Colors that go with #856b23
Royal Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #856b23 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 Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #856b23, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #856b23: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856b23: 5 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #856b23 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #856b23 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #856b23: 7 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #856b23 in 24 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Homestead, as that palette's text colour.
Real palettes that use #856b23
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856b23 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.09:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.12:1 | 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 #856b23 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
#856b23 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #856b23
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 #856b23 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/856b23-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-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