Color

#85756b

#85756b
hex#85756b
rgbrgb(133, 117, 107)
hslhsl(23, 11%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.574 0.025 54.1)
Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1877

Colors that go with #85756b

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #85756b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6b7b85

#856b6e · #85826b

#6b8575 · #756b85

Split-complementary

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#6b8582 · #6b6e85

#6e856b · #6b7b85 · #826b85

Contrast

#85756b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.42:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #827268 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #60544d as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #080808 (4.53:1)
Aaon black
4.75:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a2948b as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #85756b 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

#85756b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #85756b
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 #85756b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/85756b-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md