Color

#856c29

#856c29
hex#856c29
rgbrgb(133, 108, 41)
hslhsl(44, 53%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.542 0.09 88.3)
Closest name: Aged Antics (#886b2e)Relative luminance 0.1587

Colors that go with #856c29

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.

Real palettes that use #856c29

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#294185

#853e29 · #6f8529

#29856c · #6c2985

Split-complementary

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#296f85 · #3e2985

#29853e · #294185 · #85296f

Contrast

#856c29 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.03:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #695620 as the text (7.11:1)
Aaon black
4.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c732b as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #b39237 as the text (7.08:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (4.61:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856c29 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

#856c29 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856c29
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #856c29 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856c29-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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