Magazine Ochre
Open in tool →Ochre and walnut on unbleached stock, with teal as the counterpoint — a features-section palette with some heat in it.
Color
#685e40
#685e40
hex
#685e40rgb
rgb(104, 94, 64)hsl
hsl(45, 24%, 33%)oklch
oklch(0.483 0.046 91.8)Closest name: Baby Bear (#6f5944)Relative luminance 0.1132
Colors that go with #685e40
Charcoal, Slate 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 #685e40: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #685e40 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 #685e40.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #685e40: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #685e40: 6 real palettes, including HP's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Bakery put Peru beside #685e40, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #685e40 in 4 real palettes, including GitHub's brand system and Console Light, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #685e40 in 4 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Harvest, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #685e40
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #685e40 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.43:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.26:1 | 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 #685e40 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#685e40 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #685e40
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #685e40 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/685e40-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md