Color
#8d778b
#8d778brgb(141, 119, 139)hsl(305, 9%, 51%)oklch(0.596 0.04 329)Colors that go with #8d778b
Charcoal, Copper and Sea Green 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 for #8d778b: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Copper #b87333
triadicshippedCopper completes a triad with #8d778b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sea Green #2e8b57
complementaryshippedSea Green sits directly opposite #8d778b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Graphite Mono and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #8d778b, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8d778b, as that palette's text colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped5 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #8d778b, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #8d778b in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Gallery, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8d778b in 17 real palettes, including Typewriter and Graphite Mono, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #8d778b
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Contrast
| #8d778b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.08:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.14:1 | 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 #8d778b 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
#8d778b 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 #8d778b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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