Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Color
#85756f
#85756f
hex
#85756frgb
rgb(133, 117, 111)hsl
hsl(16, 9%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.575 0.022 41.7)Closest name: Bank Vault (#757374)Relative luminance 0.1886
Colors that go with #85756f
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 #85756f without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #85756f, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #85756f: 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Atelier, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #85756f in 4 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Five Guys's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #85756f: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #85756f in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Harvest, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Lufthansa's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #85756f, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #85756f, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #85756f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85756f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.77:1 | 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 #85756f 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
#85756f reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #85756f
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 #85756f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/85756f-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md