Graphite
Open in tool →A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
Color
#776e81
#776e81
hex
#776e81rgb
rgb(119, 110, 129)hsl
hsl(268, 8%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.553 0.031 306.7)Closest name: Flying Carpet (#787489)Relative luminance 0.1666
Colors that go with #776e81
Charcoal, Sea Green and Dark Olive Green 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 for #776e81: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Sea Green #2e8b57
split-complementshippedSea Green is a split-complement of #776e81: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
complementaryshippedDark Olive Green sits directly opposite #776e81 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #776e81, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #776e81: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Atelier, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #776e81 in 5 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Marvel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #776e81: 5 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #776e81 in 6 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #776e81
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #776e81 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.85:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.33:1 | 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 #776e81 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
Fonts for this mood
#776e81 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #776e81
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 #776e81 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/776e81-b39cc4-dfdc4e-2c1f2d-e9eaf1?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