Color
#816e7a
#816e7argb(129, 110, 122)hsl(322, 8%, 47%)oklch(0.56 0.03 339.9)Colors that go with #816e7a
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 #816e7a without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #816e7a, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #816e7a, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #816e7a: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Atelier, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #816e7a in 6 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Lufthansa's brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #816e7a, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #816e7a, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #816e7a in 4 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Subaru's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #816e7a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #816e7a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.72:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.44:1 | 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 #816e7a as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#816e7a reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point 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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #816e7a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/816e7a-c19fb1-6ecb62-2d1f22-f0e9f1?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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