Color
#873736
#873736rgb(135, 55, 54)hsl(1, 43%, 37%)oklch(0.447 0.11 23.3)Colors that go with #873736
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 #873736 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 Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #873736, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #873736 in 4 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #873736 in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Fireside, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #873736: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Typewriter put Slate Gray beside #873736, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
split-complementshippedSteel Blue is a split-complement of #873736: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #873736: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #873736
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #873736 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.99:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.63:1 | 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 #873736 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
#873736 reads as warm. 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 #873736 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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