#686e35 as text	Ratio	AA	AA large	AAA	Fix
Aaon white	5.43:1	pass	pass	fail	AAA: use #555a2b as the text (7.28:1)
Aaon black	3.87:1	fail	pass	fail	AA: use #767c3c as the text (4.72:1) AAA: use #939b4b as the text (7.03:1) AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (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 #686e35 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

6b6b2e a8a670 a1421f f6f3ea 2c2a22

Olive Grove

Open in tool →

Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.

Muted Warm Elegant

mcpConnect your agent — build around #686e35

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 #686e35 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/686e35-b8bea2-4e86df-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md