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
#893b0b
#893b0b
hex
#893b0brgb
rgb(137, 59, 11)hsl
hsl(23, 85%, 29%)oklch
oklch(0.451 0.12 46.1)Closest name: saddlebrown (#8b4513)Relative luminance 0.0847
Colors that go with #893b0b
Steel Blue, 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #893b0b 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 #893b0b, as the surface under it.
Crimson #dc143c
analogousshippedCrimson is #893b0b'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 #893b0b in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Harvest, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #893b0b in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #893b0b: 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 #893b0b, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #893b0b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #893b0b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #893b0b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 7.79:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Aaon black | 2.69:1 | 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 #893b0b 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
#893b0b reads as warm, vivid, dark. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #893b0b
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 #893b0b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/893b0b-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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