Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#877e6e
#877e6e
hex
#877e6ergb
rgb(135, 126, 110)hsl
hsl(38, 10%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.597 0.026 82.1)Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.212
Colors that go with #877e6e
Charcoal, Champagne and Crimson 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 #877e6e without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #877e6e, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #877e6e 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 #877e6e: 9 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #877e6e 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 #877e6e, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Kiln and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #877e6e, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #877e6e in 5 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Gallery, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #877e6e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #877e6e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.01:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.24:1 | 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 #877e6e 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
#877e6e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #877e6e
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 #877e6e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/877e6e-c4ba9c-62bbcb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?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