Color

#686a7d

#686a7d
hex#686a7d
rgbrgb(104, 106, 125)
hslhsl(234, 9%, 45%)
oklchoklch(0.529 0.03 280.6)
Closest name: Ashen Whisper (#646b7a)Relative luminance 0.1473

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7d7b68

#68757d · #71687d

#7d686a · #6a7d68

Split-complementary

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#7d7168 · #757d68

#7d6875 · #7d7b68 · #687d71

Contrast

#686a7d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.32:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #565867 as the text (7.03:1)
Aaon black
3.95:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #727488 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #9394a5 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ededed (4.55:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #686a7d 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

#686a7d reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #686a7d
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 #686a7d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/686a7d-9d9cc4-df8a4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md