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Color
#85896c
#85896c
hex
#85896crgb
rgb(133, 137, 108)hsl
hsl(68, 12%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.619 0.042 114)Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2396
Colors that go with #85896c
Charcoal, Medium Purple 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 #85896c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #85896c 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 Estate put Blush Pink beside #85896c, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #85896c, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #85896c in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #85896c: 9 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #85896c in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #85896c in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #85896c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85896c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.63:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.79:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #85896c 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #85896c
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 #85896c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/85896c-b7bea2-4e81df-252d1f-f1eee9?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