Color

#838c73

#838c73
hex#838c73
rgbrgb(131, 140, 115)
hslhsl(82, 10%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.626 0.038 123.6)
Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2482

Colors that go with #838c73

Charcoal, Copper and Medium Purple 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 #838c73

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7c738c

#8c8973 · #768c73

#73838c · #8c7383

Split-complementary

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#73768c · #89738c

#738c89 · #7c738c · #8c7376

Contrast

#838c73 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.52:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #717963 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #545a49 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
5.96:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #929a84 as the text (7.18:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #838c73 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #838c73
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 #838c73 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/838c73-b0bea2-4e5fdf-222d1f-f1f0e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md