Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Color
#7e8680
#7e8680
hex
#7e8680rgb
rgb(126, 134, 128)hsl
hsl(135, 3%, 51%)oklch
oklch(0.612 0.013 153.5)Closest name: Armour (#74857f)Relative luminance 0.2304
Colors that go with #7e8680
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 #7e8680 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #7e8680, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #7e8680: 6 real palettes, including Atelier and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #7e8680 in 5 real palettes, including Diner and Retro Pop, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #7e8680: 9 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #7e8680 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #7e8680 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Subaru's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Tide Pool put Midnight Blue beside #7e8680, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #7e8680
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7e8680 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.74:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.61:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #7e8680 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
#7e8680 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #7e8680
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 #7e8680 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/7e8680-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.
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