Color

#696e59

#696e59
hex#696e59
rgbrgb(105, 110, 89)
hslhsl(74, 11%, 39%)
oklchoklch(0.528 0.032 118.4)
Closest name: Archaeology (#6e6a5e)Relative luminance 0.1488

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e596e

#6e6959 · #5e6e59

#59696e · #6e5969

Split-complementary

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#595e6e · #69596e

#596e69 · #5e596e · #6e595e

Contrast

#696e59 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.28:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #565b49 as the text (7.03:1)
Aaon black
3.98:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #71775f as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #939980 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ededed (4.51:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #696e59 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #696e59
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 #696e59 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/696e59-b4bea2-4e72df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md