Color
#616b75
#616b75rgb(97, 107, 117)hsl(210, 9%, 42%)oklch(0.523 0.02 248.2)Colors that go with #616b75
Charcoal, Champagne and Cobalt 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 that reads cleanly against #616b75 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #616b75.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedDesigners have shipped Cobalt Blue with #616b75: 4 real palettes, including Ink & Paper and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #616b75: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #616b75 in 8 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Gemstone, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #616b75: 11 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #616b75: 5 real palettes, including Newsprint and Wendy's's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #616b75 in 7 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Open House, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #616b75
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #616b75 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.43:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.87:1 | 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 #616b75 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
#616b75 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #616b75 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/616b75-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?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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