Color

#973540

#973540
hex#973540
rgbrgb(151, 53, 64)
hslhsl(353, 48%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.472 0.131 17.1)
Closest name: brown (#a52a2a)Relative luminance 0.095

Colors that go with #973540

Denim, Teal and Champagne 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 #973540

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#35978c

#973571 · #975b35

#409735 · #354097

Split-complementary

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#35975b · #357197

#719735 · #35978c · #5b3597

Contrast

#973540 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.24:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.9:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c14e5b as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #d27f88 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cccccc (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #fcfcfc (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #973540 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

#973540 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #973540
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 #973540 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/973540-c49c9c-62cb8c-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md