Color
#68895d
#68895drgb(104, 137, 93)hsl(105, 19%, 45%)oklch(0.593 0.075 138)Colors that go with #68895d
Charcoal, Medium Purple and 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #68895d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #68895d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Kia's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #68895d, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #68895d in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Kiln, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #68895d, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #68895d: 5 real palettes, including Wellness and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #68895d in 7 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #68895d: 6 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #68895d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #68895d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.94:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.32:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #68895d as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #68895d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/68895d-a6bea2-754edf-1f2d22-eff1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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