Color

#856d38

#856d38
hex#856d38
rgbrgb(133, 109, 56)
hslhsl(41, 41%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.546 0.077 85.4)
Closest name: Aged Antics (#886b2e)Relative luminance 0.1621

Colors that go with #856d38

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 #856d38

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#385085

#854638 · #778538

#38856d · #6d3885

Split-complementary

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#387785 · #463885

#388546 · #385085 · #853877

Contrast

#856d38 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #68552c as the text (7.18:1)
Aaon black
4.24:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c723b as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #b4934b as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856d38 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

#856d38 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856d38
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 #856d38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856d38-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md