Color
#696349
#696349rgb(105, 99, 73)hsl(49, 18%, 35%)oklch(0.498 0.04 96.6)Colors that go with #696349
Charcoal, Slate Blue and Champagne 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 #696349: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
complementaryshippedSlate Blue sits directly opposite #696349 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #696349.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #696349: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #696349: 6 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #696349: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Fireside, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #696349, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #696349 in 5 real palettes, including Subaru's brand system and GitHub's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #696349
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #696349 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.03:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.48:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #696349 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
#696349 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #696349 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/696349-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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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