Color

#686d5f

#686d5f
hex#686d5f
rgbrgb(104, 109, 95)
hslhsl(81, 7%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.526 0.022 123.2)
Closest name: Archaeology (#6e6a5e)Relative luminance 0.1471

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#645f6d

#6d6b5f · #616d5f

#5f686d · #6d5f68

Split-complementary

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#5f616d · #6b5f6d

#5f6d6b · #645f6d · #6d5f61

Contrast

#686d5f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.33:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #565a4e as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
3.94:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #737868 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #94998a as the text (7.18:1)
  • 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 #686d5f 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

#686d5f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #686d5f
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 #686d5f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/686d5f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md