Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Color
#993c2e
#993c2e
hex
#993c2ergb
rgb(153, 60, 46)hsl
hsl(8, 54%, 39%)oklch
oklch(0.482 0.128 30.9)Closest name: Brick (#a03623)Relative luminance 0.102
Colors that go with #993c2e
Royal Blue, Teal 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #993c2e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #993c2e on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #993c2e in 5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and BrandSweets's brand system, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #993c2e in 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Cider, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #993c2e in 6 real palettes, including State Farm's brand system and Campbell's's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod is paired with #993c2e in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Harvest, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #993c2e in 4 real palettes, including Fireside and Bookshop, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #993c2e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #993c2e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #993c2e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 6.91:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 3.04:1 | 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 #993c2e 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
#993c2e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #993c2e
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 #993c2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/993c2e-c4a69c-62cba6-2d271f-f1e9ec?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