Color

#887b4e

#887b4e
hex#887b4e
rgbrgb(136, 123, 78)
hslhsl(47, 27%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.584 0.065 93.9)
Closest name: Capers (#897a3e)Relative luminance 0.1995

Colors that go with #887b4e

Charcoal, Steel Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #887b4e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4e5b88

#885f4e · #78884e

#4e887b · #7b4e88

Split-complementary

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#4e7888 · #5f4e88

#4e885f · #4e5b88 · #884e78

Contrast

#887b4e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.21:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #82764a as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #615838 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (4.55:1)
Aaon black
4.99:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a49560 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #887b4e 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

#887b4e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #887b4e
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 #887b4e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/887b4e-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md