Color

#986e61

#986e61
hex#986e61
rgbrgb(152, 110, 97)
hslhsl(14, 22%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.577 0.057 37.9)
Closest name: Amaretto (#ab6f60)Relative luminance 0.1869

Colors that go with #986e61

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.

Real palettes that use #986e61

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#618c98

#986170 · #988a61

#61986e · #6e6198

Split-complementary

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#61988a · #617098

#709861 · #618c98 · #8a6198

Contrast

#986e61 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4.43:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #956c5f as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #705148 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #080808 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
4.74:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b19086 as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #986e61 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#986e61 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #986e61
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #986e61 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/986e61-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md