Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Color
#6c6356
#6c6356
hex
#6c6356rgb
rgb(108, 99, 86)hsl
hsl(35, 11%, 38%)oklch
oklch(0.504 0.023 77.1)Closest name: Archaeology (#6e6a5e)Relative luminance 0.1278
Colors that go with #6c6356
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #6c6356 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #6c6356.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #6c6356: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #6c6356 in 4 real palettes, including Gemstone and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #6c6356: 7 real palettes, including Campus and HP's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #6c6356: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Fireside, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #6c6356 in 5 real palettes, including Harvest and Mid-Century, as the accent.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #6c6356 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Indigo SaaS, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #6c6356
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #6c6356 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.9:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.56:1 | 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 #6c6356 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#6c6356 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #6c6356
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #6c6356 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/6c6356-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md