Color

#817f79

#817f79
hex#817f79
rgbrgb(129, 127, 121)
hslhsl(45, 3%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.596 0.009 91.5)
Closest name: gray (#808080)Relative luminance 0.2123

Colors that go with #817f79

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.

Real palettes that use #817f79

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#797b81

#817b79 · #7f8179

#79817f · #7f7981

Split-complementary

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#797f81 · #7b7981

#79817b · #797b81 · #81797f

Contrast

#817f79 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #76746f as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #595854 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
5.25:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #979691 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #817f79 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

#817f79 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #817f79
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 #817f79 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/817f79-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md