Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#686745rgb(104, 103, 69)hsl(58, 20%, 34%)oklch(0.506 0.05 106.6)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 is the body-text near-black for #686745: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue sits directly opposite #686745 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #686745.
Designers have shipped Copper with #686745: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson is paired with #686745 in 4 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #686745: 7 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Firebrick with #686745: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Fireside, as the lead colour.
4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #686745, as the lead colour.
| #686745 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.81:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.61:1 | 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 #686745 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#686745 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 #686745 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/686745-bcbea2-4e99df-282d1f-f1ede9?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