Color
#968e31
#968e31rgb(150, 142, 49)hsl(55, 51%, 39%)oklch(0.636 0.113 104.4)Colors that go with #968e31
Charcoal, Dodger Blue and Medium Purple 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 #968e31: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
split-complementshippedDodger Blue is a split-complement of #968e31: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #968e31 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #968e31 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #968e31, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #968e31 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #968e31: 6 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #968e31: 5 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #968e31
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #968e31 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.38:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.21:1 | 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 #968e31 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
#968e31 reads as warm. 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 #968e31 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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