Color

#856c3d

#856c3d
hex#856c3d
rgbrgb(133, 108, 61)
hslhsl(39, 37%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.545 0.072 82.1)
Closest name: Aged Antics (#886b2e)Relative luminance 0.1605

Colors that go with #856c3d

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.

Real palettes that use #856c3d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#3d5685

#85483d · #7a853d

#3d856c · #6c3d85

Split-complementary

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#3d7a85 · #483d85

#3d8548 · #3d5685 · #853d7a

Contrast

#856c3d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.99:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #695530 as the text (7.14:1)
Aaon black
4.21:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c7140 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #b29257 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (4.58:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856c3d 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

#856c3d reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856c3d
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 #856c3d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856c3d-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md