Color

#896c6d

#896c6d
hex#896c6d
rgbrgb(137, 108, 109)
hslhsl(358, 12%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.56 0.037 16)
Closest name: Acoustic Brown (#766b69)Relative luminance 0.1715

Colors that go with #896c6d

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.

Real palettes that use #896c6d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6c8988

#896c7b · #89796c

#6d896c · #6c6d89

Split-complementary

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#6c8979 · #6c7b89

#7b896c · #6c8988 · #796c89

Contrast

#896c6d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.74:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #6a5354 as the text (7.05:1)
Aaon black
4.43:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c6e6f as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #a79090 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #fafafa (4.54:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #896c6d 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

#896c6d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #896c6d
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 #896c6d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/896c6d-c49f9c-62cb95-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md