Color

#6e785e

#6e785e
hex#6e785e
rgbrgb(110, 120, 94)
hslhsl(83, 12%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.557 0.041 124.8)
Closest name: Bonsai (#787b54)Relative luminance 0.1756

Colors that go with #6e785e

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.

Real palettes that use #6e785e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#685e78

#78755e · #61785e

#5e6e78 · #785e6e

Split-complementary

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#5e6178 · #755e78

#5e7875 · #685e78 · #785e61

Contrast

#6e785e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.66:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #545b48 as the text (7.08:1)
Aaon black
4.51:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8f9a7e as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #6e785e as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #6e785e
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

›analyze #6e785e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/6e785e-b0bea2-4e5ddf-222d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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