Clay & Linen
Open in tool →Terracotta, stone and olive on linen — the earth-tone default for ceramics, skincare and anything hand-made.
Named color
Antique
#8b846d
hex
#8b846drgb
rgb(139, 132, 109)hsl
hsl(46, 12%, 49%)oklch
oklch(0.613 0.034 93.1)Relative luminance 0.231
Antique on this page is the real value, not a screenshot: exact hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH, ten tints and ten shades, classic harmonies, and WCAG contrast with fixes — plus the curated palettes it appears in and any public brand that adopts it.
Colors that go with Antique
Charcoal, Champagne and Dark Olive 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 body-text near-black for Antique: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside Antique, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to Antique in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with Antique: 10 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with Antique: 4 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Notion's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to Antique in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with Antique in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite Antique on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use Antique
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| Antique as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.74:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.62:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with Antique 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
Antique reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around Antique
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 #8b846d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8b846d-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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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