Color
#685969
#685969rgb(104, 89, 105)hsl(296, 8%, 38%)oklch(0.484 0.031 324.1)Colors that go with #685969
Charcoal, Sea Green 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #685969: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #685969 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #685969.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #685969: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #685969 in 4 real palettes, including Codecademy's brand system and Wells Fargo's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #685969: 4 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Campus, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #685969 in 4 real palettes, including Mid-Century and Open House, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #685969 in 4 real palettes, including Console Light and Undergrowth, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #685969
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #685969 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.52:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.22:1 | 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 #685969 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
#685969 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 #685969 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/685969-c19fbf-9ccb62-2d1f28-ede9f1?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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