Color

#856e38

#856e38
hex#856e38
rgbrgb(133, 110, 56)
hslhsl(42, 41%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.548 0.078 86.6)
Closest name: Aged Antics (#886b2e)Relative luminance 0.1642

Colors that go with #856e38

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 #856e38

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#384f85

#854738 · #768538

#38856e · #6e3885

Split-complementary

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#387685 · #473885

#388547 · #384f85 · #853876

Contrast

#856e38 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.9:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #68562c as the text (7.1:1)
Aaon black
4.28:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c743b as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #b4944b as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (4.57:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856e38 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

#856e38 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856e38
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 #856e38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856e38-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md