Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#70766f
#70766f
hex
#70766frgb
rgb(112, 118, 111)hsl
hsl(111, 3%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.559 0.013 141.2)Closest name: Bank Vault (#757374)Relative luminance 0.1755
Colors that go with #70766f
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #70766f without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #70766f, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #70766f, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #70766f: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Wellness, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #70766f in 8 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Five Guys's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #70766f: 8 real palettes, including Campus and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #70766f in 6 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Mid-Century, as the lead colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #70766f in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Undergrowth, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #70766f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #70766f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.66:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.51:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #70766f as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Gallery
Open in tool →Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.
Graphite Mono
Open in tool →Five greys, no hue — the true monochrome; the accent is a lighter grey, so hierarchy comes from weight and size alone.
Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Fonts for this mood
#70766f reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #70766f
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 #70766f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/70766f-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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