Bookshop
Open in tool →Chestnut and forest on cream read like a cloth-bound spine; the palette recedes so covers and type do the talking.
Color
#856d57
#856d57
hex
#856d57rgb
rgb(133, 109, 87)hsl
hsl(29, 21%, 43%)oklch
oklch(0.552 0.045 64.2)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1661
Colors that go with #856d57
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #856d57: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside #856d57, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #856d57, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856d57: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #856d57 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #856d57 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #856d57, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #856d57 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #856d57
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856d57 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.86:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.32:1 | 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 #856d57 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
Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Fonts for this mood
#856d57 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #856d57
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 #856d57 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/856d57-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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