Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Color
#976a49
#976a49
hex
#976a49rgb
rgb(151, 106, 73)hsl
hsl(25, 35%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.563 0.074 56.8)Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.1737
Colors that go with #976a49
Blush Pink, Champagne and Dodger 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.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #976a49, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Bramble put Champagne beside #976a49, as that palette's text colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #976a49: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #976a49 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Desert Road, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #976a49, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #976a49: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Riverbed, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #976a49: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #976a49 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 #976a49
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #976a49 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.69:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.47:1 | 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 #976a49 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#976a49 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #976a49
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 #976a49 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/976a49-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md