Color

#685e65

#685e65
hex#685e65
rgbrgb(104, 94, 101)
hslhsl(318, 5%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.494 0.017 336.5)
Closest name: Concrete Landscape (#5c606e)Relative luminance 0.1189

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e6861

#665e68 · #685e60

#65685e · #5e6568

Split-complementary

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#60685e · #5e6866

#68665e · #5e6861 · #5e6068

Contrast

#685e65 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
6.22:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #5e555b as the text (7.18:1)
Aaon black
3.38:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7e727a as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #9e949b as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #dedede (4.62:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #685e65 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

#685e65 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #685e65
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #685e65 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/685e65-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md