Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#896a58
#896a58
hex
#896a58rgb
rgb(137, 106, 88)hsl
hsl(22, 22%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.55 0.048 51.5)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1633
Colors that go with #896a58
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #896a58: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #896a58 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #896a58, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #896a58: 7 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #896a58 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #896a58 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Darkroom, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #896a58, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #896a58 in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Slate Workspace, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #896a58
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #896a58 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.92:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.27:1 | 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 #896a58 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
#896a58 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #896a58
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 #896a58 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/896a58-c4af9c-62cbbf-2d2a1f-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