Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#876a5argb(135, 106, 90)hsl(21, 20%, 44%)oklch(0.549 0.044 50.3)Charcoal, Teal and Champagne 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.
Charcoal is the body-text near-black for #876a5a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Teal sits directly opposite #876a5a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #876a5a, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Copper with #876a5a: 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #876a5a: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod shows up next to #876a5a in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Hunter Green is paired with #876a5a in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #876a5a, as the lead colour.
| #876a5a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.95:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.24:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #876a5a as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#876a5a reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #876a5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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