Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#848171
#848171
hex
#848171rgb
rgb(132, 129, 113)hsl
hsl(51, 8%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.601 0.024 98.3)Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.218
Colors that go with #848171
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #848171 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #848171, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #848171: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Atelier, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #848171 in 5 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #848171: 8 real palettes, including Campus and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #848171 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Paramount+'s brand system and Plaid's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #848171, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped6 real palettes, including Kiln and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #848171, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #848171
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #848171 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.92:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.36:1 | 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 #848171 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
#848171 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #848171
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 #848171 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/848171-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?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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