Color

#72805b

#72805b
hex#72805b
rgbrgb(114, 128, 91)
hslhsl(83, 17%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.578 0.057 125)
Closest name: Bonsai (#787b54)Relative luminance 0.1977

Colors that go with #72805b

Charcoal, Medium Purple 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 #72805b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#695b80

#807c5b · #5f805b

#5b7280 · #805b72

Split-complementary

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#5b5f80 · #7c5b80

#5b807c · #695b80 · #805b5f

Contrast

#72805b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.24:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #6d7a57 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #525c42 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (4.52:1)
Aaon black
4.95:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #8c9c73 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #72805b 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 #72805b
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 #72805b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/72805b-b0bea2-4e5ddf-222d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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