Color
#86260e
#86260ergb(134, 38, 14)hsl(12, 81%, 29%)oklch(0.417 0.135 34.6)Colors that go with #86260e
Teal, Champagne and Slate Gray 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #86260e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #86260e, as the text colour against it.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Typewriter put Slate Gray beside #86260e, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #86260e in 12 real palettes, including Bookshop and Cider, as that palette's text colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #86260e: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #86260e: 3 real palettes, including Bramble and Bakery, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #86260e in 3 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and M&M's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #86260e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #86260e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #86260e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 9.14:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.3:1 | fail | fail | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #86260e 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
#86260e 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 #86260e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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