Mushroom
Open in tool →Taupe, oat and a sage accent — the quiet earth palette: almost neutral, with just enough colour to feel alive.
Color
#8b7b74
#8b7b74
hex
#8b7b74rgb
rgb(139, 123, 116)hsl
hsl(18, 9%, 50%)oklch
oklch(0.595 0.022 45.1)Closest name: gray (#808080)Relative luminance 0.2092
Colors that go with #8b7b74
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 #8b7b74 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8b7b74, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8b7b74: 8 real palettes, including Campus and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8b7b74 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped6 real palettes, including Kiln and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #8b7b74, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8b7b74 in 4 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Subaru's brand system, as the accent.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8b7b74 in 6 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Gallery, as the accent.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #8b7b74: 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Bakery, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8b7b74
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8b7b74 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.05:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.18:1 | 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 #8b7b74 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
#8b7b74 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #8b7b74
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 #8b7b74 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8b7b74-c4ad9c-62cbb8-2d291f-f1e9eb?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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