Color

#686d3b

#686d3b
hex#686d3b
rgbrgb(104, 109, 59)
hslhsl(66, 30%, 33%)
oklchoklch(0.518 0.072 113.6)
Closest name: Beat Around the Bush (#6e6a44)Relative luminance 0.142

Colors that go with #686d3b

Charcoal, Royal Blue and Slate Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #686d3b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#403b6d

#6d593b · #4f6d3b

#3b686d · #6d3b68

Split-complementary

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#3b4f6d · #593b6d

#3b6d59 · #403b6d · #6d3b4f

Contrast

#686d3b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.47:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #555a30 as the text (7.26:1)
Aaon black
3.84:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #757b42 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #959c54 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.59:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #686d3b as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #686d3b
live endpoint

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.

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

analyze #686d3b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/686d3b-b8bea2-4e86df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md