Color

#993b1e

#993b1e
hex#993b1e
rgbrgb(153, 59, 30)
hslhsl(14, 67%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.478 0.133 37.3)
Closest name: Brick (#a03623)Relative luminance 0.0999

Colors that go with #993b1e

Crimson, Royal Blue and Teal 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 #993b1e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1e7d99

#991e3f · #99791e

#1e993b · #3b1e99

Split-complementary

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#1e9979 · #1e3f99

#3f991e · #1e7d99 · #791e99

Contrast

#993b1e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c84d28 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #df7b5d as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #d1d1d1 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #993b1e 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

#993b1e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #993b1e
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 #993b1e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/993b1e-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md