Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Color
#996a38
#996a38
hex
#996a38rgb
rgb(153, 106, 56)hsl
hsl(31, 46%, 41%)oklch
oklch(0.563 0.089 65.9)Closest name: Argan Oil (#9d6646)Relative luminance 0.1737
Colors that go with #996a38
Champagne, Dodger Blue and Hunter 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #996a38, as that palette's text colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #996a38: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Miro's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #996a38 in 6 real palettes, including Bookshop and Rolex's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #996a38, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #996a38: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #996a38 in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Mushroom, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #996a38 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #996a38: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #996a38
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #996a38 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.69:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Aaon black | 4.47:1 | 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 #996a38 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#996a38 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #996a38
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 #996a38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/996a38-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?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