Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Color
#856f66
#856f66
hex
#856f66rgb
rgb(133, 111, 102)hsl
hsl(17, 13%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.56 0.031 43.5)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1731
Colors that go with #856f66
Charcoal, Teal and Blush Pink 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 #856f66: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #856f66 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #856f66, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #856f66, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #856f66: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856f66: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #856f66 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #856f66 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #856f66
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856f66 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.71:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.46:1 | 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 #856f66 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
#856f66 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #856f66
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 #856f66 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/856f66-c4ac9c-62cbb6-2d291f-f1e9eb?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