Color

#959956

#959956
hex#959956
rgbrgb(149, 153, 86)
hslhsl(64, 28%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.09 111.6)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2984

Colors that go with #959956

Charcoal, Medium Purple and Blue 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.

Real palettes that use #959956

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5b5699

#997c56 · #739956

#569599 · #995695

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#567399 · #7c5699

#56997c · #5b5699 · #995673

Contrast

#959956 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.01:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #757944 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #595b33 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.97:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #989d58 as the text (7.3:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #959956 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #959956
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #959956 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/959956-b9bea2-4e8adf-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md