Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#887f63
#887f63
hex
#887f63rgb
rgb(136, 127, 99)hsl
hsl(45, 16%, 46%)oklch
oklch(0.597 0.042 92.4)Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2131
Colors that go with #887f63
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 body-text near-black for #887f63: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #887f63, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #887f63: 9 real palettes, including Dusk and Intel's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #887f63 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 Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #887f63, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Kiln put Peru beside #887f63, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #887f63 in 5 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Gallery, as the accent.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #887f63 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 #887f63
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #887f63 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.99:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.26:1 | 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 #887f63 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
#887f63 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #887f63
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 #887f63 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/887f63-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-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