Graphite
Open in tool →A greyscale system with a single amber — the accent does all the work, so allow one per screen.
Color
#786e7c
#786e7c
hex
#786e7crgb
rgb(120, 110, 124)hsl
hsl(283, 6%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.552 0.024 316.4)Closest name: Flying Carpet (#787489)Relative luminance 0.166
Colors that go with #786e7c
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #786e7c without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #786e7c, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #786e7c: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Atelier, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #786e7c in 7 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Redfin's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #786e7c: 8 real palettes, including Campus and The New York Times's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #786e7c in 6 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
shippedMedium Sea Green is paired with #786e7c in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Fintech Trust, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Fintech Trust put Midnight Blue beside #786e7c, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #786e7c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #786e7c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.86:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.32:1 | 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 #786e7c 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
#786e7c reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #786e7c
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 #786e7c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/786e7c-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