Color

#684e4a

#684e4a
hex#684e4a
rgbrgb(104, 78, 74)
hslhsl(8, 17%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.45 0.036 28.6)
Closest name: Afternoon Coffee (#6e544b)Relative luminance 0.0889

Colors that go with #684e4a

Teal, Champagne and Copper 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 #684e4a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#4a6468

#684a55 · #685d4a

#4a684e · #4e4a68

Split-complementary

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#4a685d · #4a5568

#55684a · #4a6468 · #5d4a68

Contrast

#684e4a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.56:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.78:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #926d68 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #ac8f8b as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #c9c9c9 (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #f7f7f7 (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #684e4a 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

#684e4a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #684e4a
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 #684e4a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/684e4a-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md