Color
#888e7b
#888e7brgb(136, 142, 123)hsl(79, 8%, 52%)oklch(0.636 0.029 121.5)Colors that go with #888e7b
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #888e7b without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Rain Garden put Blush Pink beside #888e7b, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #888e7b in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coastal, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #888e7b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #888e7b: 6 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Atelier, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #888e7b in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #888e7b: 9 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #888e7b in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #888e7b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #888e7b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.39:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.2:1 | 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 #888e7b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#888e7b reads as muted, minimal. 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 #888e7b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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