Color

#81815a

#81815a
hex#81815a
rgbrgb(129, 129, 90)
hslhsl(60, 18%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.593 0.056 108)
Closest name: Bonsai (#787b54)Relative luminance 0.2111

Colors that go with #81815a

Charcoal, Medium Purple 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 #81815a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5a5a81

#816e5a · #6e815a

#5a8181 · #815a81

Split-complementary

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#5a6e81 · #6e5a81

#5a816e · #5a5a81 · #815a6e

Contrast

#81815a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.02:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #787854 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5a3f as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
5.22:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #99996c as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #81815a as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #81815a
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 #81815a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/81815a-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md