Color
#685a37
#685a37rgb(104, 90, 55)hsl(43, 31%, 31%)oklch(0.472 0.054 88.5)Colors that go with #685a37
Charcoal, Royal Blue 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 body-text near-black for #685a37: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #685a37 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 #685a37.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #685a37: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Bakery, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #685a37: 5 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Bakery and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #685a37, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #685a37 in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Harvest, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #685a37: 9 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #685a37
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #685a37 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.76:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.11:1 | 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 #685a37 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
#685a37 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #685a37 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/685a37-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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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