Color

#856e6b

#856e6b
hex#856e6b
rgbrgb(133, 110, 107)
hslhsl(7, 11%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.559 0.03 26.8)
Closest name: Anchovy (#756f6b)Relative luminance 0.172

Colors that go with #856e6b

Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #856e6b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6b8285

#856b75 · #857b6b

#6b856e · #6e6b85

Split-complementary

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#6b857b · #6b7585

#75856b · #6b8285 · #7b6b85

Contrast

#856e6b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.73:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #665452 as the text (7.11:1)
Aaon black
4.44:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #88706d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #a69391 as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.53:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #856e6b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#856e6b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #856e6b
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 #856e6b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/856e6b-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md