Color

#817c5a

#817c5a
hex#817c5a
rgbrgb(129, 124, 90)
hslhsl(52, 18%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.582 0.049 100.7)
Closest name: Bonsai (#787b54)Relative luminance 0.1982

Colors that go with #817c5a

Charcoal, Slate Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #817c5a

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5a5f81

#81685a · #73815a

#5a817c · #7c5a81

Split-complementary

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#5a7381 · #685a81

#5a8168 · #5a5f81 · #815a73

Contrast

#817c5a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.23:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7b7656 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5d5941 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (4.53:1)
Aaon black
4.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9d9772 as the text (7.1:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #817c5a 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

#817c5a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #817c5a
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #817c5a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/817c5a-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md