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
#856f6b
#856f6b
hex
#856f6brgb
rgb(133, 111, 107)hsl
hsl(9, 11%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.561 0.029 30.1)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1742
Colors that go with #856f6b
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #856f6b without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #856f6b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #856f6b: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #856f6b: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #856f6b in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #856f6b in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #856f6b, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #856f6b, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #856f6b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #856f6b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.68:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.48:1 | 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 #856f6b 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
#856f6b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #856f6b
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 #856f6b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/856f6b-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?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