Color
#985e57
#985e57rgb(152, 94, 87)hsl(6, 27%, 47%)oklch(0.544 0.077 27.3)Colors that go with #985e57
Teal, 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #985e57 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #985e57, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #985e57 in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and BrandSweets's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #985e57 in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Fireside, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #985e57, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #985e57 in 4 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Slate Workspace, as the supporting colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #985e57: 7 real palettes, including Homestead and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #985e57: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #985e57
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #985e57 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.15:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.07:1 | 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 #985e57 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#985e57 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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 #985e57 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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