Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Color
#986d3e
#986d3e
hex
#986d3ergb
rgb(152, 109, 62)hsl
hsl(31, 42%, 42%)oklch
oklch(0.569 0.084 67.2)Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.1796
Colors that go with #986d3e
Champagne, Charcoal 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #986d3e, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #986d3e: 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 #986d3e in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and BrandSweets's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #986d3e: 6 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #986d3e: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #986d3e in 7 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 #986d3e, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #986d3e 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 #986d3e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #986d3e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.57:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.59:1 | 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 #986d3e 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
#986d3e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #986d3e
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 #986d3e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/986d3e-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md