Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Color
#873e26
#873e26
hex
#873e26rgb
rgb(135, 62, 38)hsl
hsl(15, 56%, 34%)oklch
oklch(0.455 0.107 38.6)Closest name: saddlebrown (#8b4513)Relative luminance 0.0874
Colors that go with #873e26
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 #873e26 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #873e26, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #873e26's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #873e26 in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Fireside, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #873e26 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #873e26: 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Bookshop and Typewriter put Slate Gray beside #873e26, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #873e26: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #873e26
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #873e26 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.64:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.75:1 | 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 #873e26 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#873e26 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #873e26
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 #873e26 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/873e26-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?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