Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#896c5d
#896c5d
hex
#896c5drgb
rgb(137, 108, 93)hsl
hsl(20, 19%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.556 0.044 48.7)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1683
Colors that go with #896c5d
Charcoal, Teal and Blush Pink 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 #896c5d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #896c5d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Blush put Blush Pink beside #896c5d, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #896c5d, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #896c5d: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Dyson's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #896c5d in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #896c5d in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #896c5d, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #896c5d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #896c5d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.81:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.37:1 | 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 #896c5d 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
#896c5d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #896c5d
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 #896c5d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/896c5d-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?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