Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Color
#986a2f
#986a2f
hex
#986a2frgb
rgb(152, 106, 47)hsl
hsl(34, 53%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.561 0.095 70.3)Closest name: Aged Antics (#886b2e)Relative luminance 0.1719
Colors that go with #986a2f
Champagne, Hunter Green and Peru 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #986a2f, as that palette's text colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #986a2f 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 #986a2f, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #986a2f: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #986a2f in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Mushroom, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #986a2f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Slate Blue #6a5acd
split-complementshippedSlate Blue is a split-complement of #986a2f: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #986a2f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #986a2f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #986a2f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.73:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.44:1 | 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 #986a2f 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
#986a2f reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #986a2f
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 #986a2f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/986a2f-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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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