Color
#862e18
#862e18rgb(134, 46, 24)hsl(12, 70%, 31%)oklch(0.428 0.125 35)Colors that go with #862e18
Teal, Champagne and Crimson 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 #862e18 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 Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #862e18, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #862e18 in 4 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Typewriter put Slate Gray beside #862e18, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #862e18 in 15 real palettes, including Cider and Bookshop, as that palette's text colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #862e18: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #862e18: 3 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #862e18: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #862e18
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #862e18 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 8.69:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.42:1 | 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 #862e18 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
#862e18 reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #862e18 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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