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
#883b11
#883b11
hex
#883b11rgb
rgb(136, 59, 17)hsl
hsl(21, 78%, 30%)oklch
oklch(0.449 0.117 44.9)Closest name: saddlebrown (#8b4513)Relative luminance 0.084
Colors that go with #883b11
Teal, Champagne and Goldenrod 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 #883b11 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 #883b11, as the surface under it.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #883b11 in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Fireside, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #883b11 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #883b11: 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 #883b11, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #883b11: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #883b11: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #883b11 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.83:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.68:1 | 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 #883b11 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#883b11 reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #883b11
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 #883b11 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/883b11-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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