Color
#996456
#996456rgb(153, 100, 86)hsl(13, 28%, 47%)oklch(0.557 0.073 35.5)Colors that go with #996456
Teal, Champagne and Charcoal 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.
Teal #008080
complementaryshippedTeal sits directly opposite #996456 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #996456, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #996456: 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 #996456 in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and BrandSweets's brand system, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #996456: 4 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #996456 in 6 real palettes, including Bookshop and Desert Road, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #996456, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #996456 in 5 real palettes, including Wayfair's brand system and Subaru's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #996456
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #996456 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.87:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.31:1 | 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 #996456 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
#996456 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #996456 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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