Newsprint
Open in tool →Ink-black on warm paper with a single red — the broadsheet hierarchy that lets typography lead.
Color
#83706d
#83706d
hex
#83706drgb
rgb(131, 112, 109)hsl
hsl(8, 9%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.562 0.024 28.5)Closest name: Bank Vault (#757374)Relative luminance 0.1752
Colors that go with #83706d
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 #83706d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #83706d, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #83706d, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #83706d: 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Riverbed, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #83706d in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Five Guys's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #83706d: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #83706d in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Harvest, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #83706d in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #83706d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #83706d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.66:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.5:1 | 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 #83706d 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
Fonts for this mood
#83706d reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #83706d
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 #83706d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/83706d-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?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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