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Open in tool →Pumpkin, straw and burnt gold on parchment — the autumn palette that still feels like a product, not a place-mat.
Color
#856b2e
#856b2e
hex
#856b2ergb
rgb(133, 107, 46)hsl
hsl(42, 49%, 35%)oklch
oklch(0.541 0.086 86)Closest name: Aged Antics (#886b2e)Relative luminance 0.157
Colors that go with #856b2e
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 #856b2e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #856b2e 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 #856b2e, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856b2e: 5 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #856b2e: 7 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #856b2e in 4 real palettes, including Mushroom and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #856b2e in 24 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Homestead, as that palette's text colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped3 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #856b2e, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #856b2e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856b2e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.07:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.14:1 | 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 #856b2e 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
#856b2e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #856b2e
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 #856b2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/856b2e-c4bc9c-62b4cb-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