Color

Archaeology

#6e6a5e
hex#6e6a5e
rgbrgb(110, 106, 94)
hslhsl(45, 8%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.524 0.019 91.7)
Relative luminance 0.1443

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5e626e

#6e625e · #6a6e5e

#5e6e6a · #6a5e6e

Split-complementary

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#5e6a6e · #625e6e

#5e6e62 · #5e626e · #6e5e6a

Contrast

Archaeology as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.4:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #5b584d as the text (7.12:1)
Aaon black
3.89:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #797567 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #9a9689 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #ebebeb (4.53:1)

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

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around Archaeology
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 #6e6a5e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/6e6a5e-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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