Color

#696959

#696959
hex#696959
rgbrgb(105, 105, 89)
hslhsl(60, 8%, 38%)
oklchoklch(0.516 0.024 107.2)
Closest name: Archaeology (#6e6a5e)Relative luminance 0.1383

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#595969

#696159 · #616959

#596969 · #695969

Split-complementary

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#596169 · #615969

#596961 · #595969 · #695961

Contrast

#696959 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.58:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #58584b as the text (7.21:1)
Aaon black
3.77:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #767665 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #989886 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e8e8e8 (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 #696959 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

#696959 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #696959
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 #696959 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/696959-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md