Clean Beauty
Open in tool →Sage and clay on unbleached white — the nothing-to-hide palette for ingredient-led skincare.
Color
#808d6d
#808d6d
hex
#808d6drgb
rgb(128, 141, 109)hsl
hsl(84, 13%, 49%)oklch
oklch(0.624 0.049 125.8)Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2474
Colors that go with #808d6d
Charcoal, Copper and Medium Purple 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 body-text near-black for #808d6d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
analogousshippedCopper is #808d6d's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #808d6d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Estate put Blush Pink beside #808d6d, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #808d6d in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coastal, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #808d6d, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #808d6d in 4 real palettes, including Diner and Five Guys's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #808d6d in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #808d6d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #808d6d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.53:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.95:1 | 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 #808d6d 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
mcpConnect your agent — build around #808d6d
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 #808d6d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/808d6d-afbea2-4e5adf-222d1f-f1f0e9?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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