Color
#36685f
#36685frgb(54, 104, 95)hsl(169, 32%, 31%)oklch(0.479 0.056 180.8)Colors that go with #36685f
Charcoal, Medium Violet Red and Blue 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 text near-black for #36685f: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
complementaryshippedMedium Violet Red sits directly opposite #36685f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #36685f, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #36685f: 4 real palettes, including Alpine and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Darkroom and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #36685f, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #36685f: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #36685f in 8 real palettes, including Gemstone and Redfin's brand system, as the accent.
Dark Goldenrod #b8860b
shipped4 real palettes, including Cider and Rolex's brand system put Dark Goldenrod beside #36685f, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #36685f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #36685f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.36:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.3:1 | 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 #36685f as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #36685f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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