Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Color
#976f49
#976f49
hex
#976f49rgb
rgb(151, 111, 73)hsl
hsl(29, 35%, 44%)oklch
oklch(0.573 0.074 64)Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.1843
Colors that go with #976f49
Charcoal, 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #976f49: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #976f49, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #976f49 in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and BrandSweets's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #976f49: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Campus, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #976f49: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Studio Grey, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #976f49 in 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Desert Road, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #976f49, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #976f49 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 #976f49
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #976f49 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.48:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.69:1 | 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 #976f49 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
#976f49 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #976f49
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 #976f49 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/976f49-c4b49c-62cbcb-2d2c1f-f1e9e9?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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