Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Color
#8a7e75
#8a7e75
hex
#8a7e75rgb
rgb(138, 126, 117)hsl
hsl(26, 8%, 50%)oklch
oklch(0.601 0.02 59.3)Closest name: gray (#808080)Relative luminance 0.2161
Colors that go with #8a7e75
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #8a7e75 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #8a7e75, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8a7e75, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #8a7e75 in 5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Retro Pop, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a7e75: 8 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 #8a7e75, as the supporting colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped6 real palettes, including Kiln and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #8a7e75, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8a7e75 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Gallery, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #8a7e75
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a7e75 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.95:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.32:1 | 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 #8a7e75 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
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Fonts for this mood
#8a7e75 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8a7e75
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 #8a7e75 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8a7e75-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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