Color

#873b48

#873b48
hex#873b48
rgbrgb(135, 59, 72)
hslhsl(350, 39%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.457 0.105 11.5)
Closest name: Blood Oath (#85323c)Relative luminance 0.0875

Colors that go with #873b48

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.

Real palettes that use #873b48

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#3b877a

#873b6d · #87543b

#48873b · #3b4887

Split-complementary

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#3b8754 · #3b6d87

#6d873b · #3b877a · #543b87

Contrast

#873b48 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.64:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.75:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b65868 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #c9838f as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c7c7c7 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f5f5f5 (7.01:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #873b48 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

#873b48 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #873b48
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 #873b48 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/873b48-c49c9e-62cb87-2d231f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md