Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#878464rgb(135, 132, 100)hsl(55, 15%, 46%)oklch(0.607 0.046 103.2)Charcoal, Medium Purple 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 is the body-text near-black for #878464: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple sits directly opposite #878464 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #878464, as that palette's text colour.
Designers have shipped Denim with #878464: 9 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Dodger Blue with #878464: 4 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Notion's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green is paired with #878464 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Kiln and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #878464, as the lead colour.
Rust shows up next to #878464 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Gallery, as the accent.
| #878464 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.81:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.51:1 | 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 #878464 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#878464 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #878464 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/878464-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?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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