Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Color
#976c49
#976c49
hex
#976c49rgb
rgb(151, 108, 73)hsl
hsl(27, 35%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.567 0.074 59.7)Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.1779
Colors that go with #976c49
Royal Blue, 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #976c49: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Bramble put Champagne beside #976c49, as that palette's text colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #976c49: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #976c49 in 6 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #976c49, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
shippedRust shows up next to #976c49 in 4 real palettes, including Harvest and Aesop's brand system, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #976c49: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Riverbed, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #976c49: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #976c49
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #976c49 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.61:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.56:1 | 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 #976c49 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#976c49 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #976c49
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 #976c49 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/976c49-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-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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