Color
#979720
#979720rgb(151, 151, 32)hsl(60, 65%, 36%)oklch(0.656 0.133 109.6)Colors that go with #979720
Medium Purple, Cadet Blue 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.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #979720 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 #979720 — 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 Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #979720, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #979720: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #979720 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Forest Floor, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #979720 in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #979720 in 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Chevrolet's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #979720: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #979720
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #979720 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 3.1:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.76:1 | 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 #979720 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #979720 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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