Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#736e68
#736e68
hex
#736e68rgb
rgb(115, 110, 104)hsl
hsl(33, 5%, 43%)oklch
oklch(0.541 0.011 72.6)Closest name: Anchovy (#756f6b)Relative luminance 0.158
Colors that go with #736e68
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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #736e68 in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Forest Floor, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #736e68 in 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clay & Linen, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #736e68 in 7 real palettes, including Harvest and Mid-Century, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #736e68 in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Undergrowth, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #736e68 in 5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust is paired with #736e68 in 4 real palettes, including Gallery and Magazine Ochre, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #736e68 in 7 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #736e68
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #736e68 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.05:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.16:1 | 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 #736e68 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
Gallery
Open in tool →Near-monochrome with one burnt-orange highlight — an art director's default because it never competes with the work.
Ink & Paper
Open in tool →Two greys and one ink-blue link color: the palette of a well-set book page.
Fonts for this mood
#736e68 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #736e68
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 #736e68 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/736e68-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.
Machine-readable: color.md