Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#80756b
#80756b
hex
#80756brgb
rgb(128, 117, 107)hsl
hsl(29, 9%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.569 0.02 64.7)Closest name: Aztec Temple (#84705b)Relative luminance 0.1837
Colors that go with #80756b
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #80756b without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #80756b, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #80756b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #80756b: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #80756b 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 #80756b: 8 real palettes, including Campus and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #80756b in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Harvest, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #80756b in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #80756b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #80756b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.49:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.67:1 | 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 #80756b as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#80756b reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #80756b
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 #80756b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/80756b-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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