Color
#685d1d
#685d1drgb(104, 93, 29)hsl(51, 56%, 26%)oklch(0.476 0.084 99.4)Colors that go with #685d1d
Charcoal, 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #685d1d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Darkroom put Champagne beside #685d1d.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #685d1d: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Bakery, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #685d1d: 4 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #685d1d: 4 real palettes, including Trader Joe's's brand system and Fireside, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Bakery and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #685d1d, as the supporting colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #685d1d in 5 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Harvest, as the lead colour.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementarySlate Blue sits directly opposite #685d1d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #685d1d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #685d1d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.62:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.17:1 | 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 #685d1d as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#685d1d reads as warm, dark, luxury. 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 #685d1d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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