Color
#96551d
#96551drgb(150, 85, 29)hsl(28, 68%, 35%)oklch(0.516 0.11 56.8)Colors that go with #96551d
Steel Blue, 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.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementaryshippedSteel Blue sits directly opposite #96551d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #96551d.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #96551d in 5 real palettes, including BrandSweets's brand system and Olive Grove.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #96551d in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bookshop, as the accent.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #96551d: 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped7 real palettes, including Typewriter and Clay & Linen put Slate Gray beside #96551d, as the supporting colour.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #96551d in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Mushroom, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #96551d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #96551d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96551d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.81:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.61:1 | fail | 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 #96551d 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
#96551d reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #96551d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/96551d-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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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