Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#7a7366
#7a7366
hex
#7a7366rgb
rgb(122, 115, 102)hsl
hsl(39, 9%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.558 0.021 83)Closest name: Anchovy (#756f6b)Relative luminance 0.1736
Colors that go with #7a7366
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 #7a7366 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #7a7366, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #7a7366: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #7a7366 in 5 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #7a7366: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #7a7366 in 5 real palettes, including Harvest and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Paramount+'s brand system and Lufthansa's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #7a7366, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #7a7366, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #7a7366
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7a7366 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.7:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.47:1 | 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 #7a7366 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
#7a7366 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #7a7366
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 #7a7366 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/7a7366-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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