Greige
Open in tool →Grey-beige with a hint of olive — the interior-design neutral; the olive accent is the only thing that isn't a shade of nothing.
Color
#949161rgb(148, 145, 97)hsl(56, 21%, 48%)oklch(0.647 0.066 105.1)Charcoal, Medium Purple and Blush Pink 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 is the body-text near-black for #949161: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple sits directly opposite #949161 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
5 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #949161, as the accent.
Burlywood is paired with #949161 in 5 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #949161, as the surface under it.
Dark Olive Green shows up next to #949161 in 6 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Denim with #949161: 7 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Dodger Blue with #949161: 5 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Studio Grey, as the lead colour.
| #949161 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.24:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.48:1 | 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 #949161 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#949161 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #949161 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/949161-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?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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