Color
#987e16
#987e16rgb(152, 126, 22)hsl(48, 75%, 34%)oklch(0.601 0.117 93.4)Colors that go with #987e16
Charcoal, 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #987e16: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #987e16, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #987e16 in 4 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #987e16: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #987e16: 5 real palettes, including Cider and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #987e16: 4 real palettes, including Riverbed and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Atelier and Riverbed put Slate Gray beside #987e16, as the supporting colour.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
complementaryMedium Slate Blue sits directly opposite #987e16 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
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Harmonies
Contrast
| #987e16 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.94:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.33:1 | 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 #987e16 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
#987e16 reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #987e16 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/987e16-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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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