Bookshop
Open in tool →Chestnut and forest on cream read like a cloth-bound spine; the palette recedes so covers and type do the talking.
Color
#897661
#897661
hex
#897661rgb
rgb(137, 118, 97)hsl
hsl(32, 17%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.578 0.039 69.7)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1914
Colors that go with #897661
Charcoal, Champagne and Denim 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 #897661: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #897661, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #897661: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #897661: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Studio Grey, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #897661 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Paramount+'s brand system and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #897661, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #897661, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #897661 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #897661 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.35:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.83:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #897661 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
#897661 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #897661
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 #897661 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/897661-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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