Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Color
#88796d
#88796d
hex
#88796drgb
rgb(136, 121, 109)hsl
hsl(27, 11%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.586 0.026 60.9)Closest name: gray (#808080)Relative luminance 0.2001
Colors that go with #88796d
Charcoal, Champagne and Denim 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 #88796d without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #88796d, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #88796d: 7 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and Paramount+'s brand system put Midnight Blue beside #88796d, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #88796d, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #88796d in 5 real palettes, including Gallery and Noir Beauty, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #88796d: 6 real palettes, including Graphite and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Sandy Brown #f4a460
shippedSandy Brown is paired with #88796d in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Ubereats's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #88796d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #88796d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.2:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5:1 | 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 #88796d 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
#88796d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #88796d
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 #88796d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/88796d-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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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