Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#868065
#868065
hex
#868065rgb
rgb(134, 128, 101)hsl
hsl(49, 14%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.598 0.04 97)Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2145
Colors that go with #868065
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 body-text near-black for #868065: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #868065, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #868065, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #868065 in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Five Guys's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #868065: 8 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Paramount+'s brand system and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #868065, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Kiln put Peru beside #868065, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #868065 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #868065
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #868065 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.97:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.29:1 | 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 #868065 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
#868065 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #868065
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 #868065 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/868065-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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