Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Color
#897e6c
#897e6c
hex
#897e6crgb
rgb(137, 126, 108)hsl
hsl(37, 12%, 48%)oklch
oklch(0.598 0.03 80.1)Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2132
Colors that go with #897e6c
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 #897e6c without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #897e6c, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #897e6c in 4 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #897e6c: 9 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #897e6c 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 #897e6c, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Kiln and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #897e6c, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #897e6c in 5 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Gallery, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #897e6c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #897e6c 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 #897e6c 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
#897e6c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #897e6c
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 #897e6c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/897e6c-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?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