Color

#856b73

#856b73
hex#856b73
rgbrgb(133, 107, 115)
hslhsl(342, 11%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.556 0.035 357.9)
Closest name: Acoustic Brown (#766b69)Relative luminance 0.1674

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6b857d

#856b80 · #85706b

#73856b · #6b7385

Split-complementary

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#6b8570 · #6b8085

#80856b · #6b857d · #706b85

Contrast

#856b73 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.83:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #665258 as the text (7.21:1)
Aaon black
4.35:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b6f77 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #a69197 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (4.51:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856b73 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#856b73 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856b73
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 #856b73 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856b73-c49ca3-62cb79-2d211f-f1e9ef?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md