Color
#856f0f
#856f0frgb(133, 111, 15)hsl(49, 80%, 29%)oklch(0.547 0.108 94.5)Colors that go with #856f0f
Royal Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #856f0f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #856f0f, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #856f0f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856f0f: 5 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #856f0f in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #856f0f in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #856f0f: 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Atelier and Mushroom put Slate Gray beside #856f0f, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #856f0f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856f0f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.91:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.28:1 | 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 #856f0f 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
#856f0f reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #856f0f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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