Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#896b4d
#896b4d
hex
#896b4drgb
rgb(137, 107, 77)hsl
hsl(30, 28%, 42%)oklch
oklch(0.55 0.058 66.1)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1637
Colors that go with #896b4d
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #896b4d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside #896b4d, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #896b4d, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #896b4d: 7 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #896b4d in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #896b4d, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #896b4d in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and Slate Workspace, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #896b4d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #896b4d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #896b4d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.91:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
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 #896b4d 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
#896b4d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #896b4d
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 #896b4d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/896b4d-c4b59c-62c9cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?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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