Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Color
#997138
#997138
hex
#997138rgb
rgb(153, 113, 56)hsl
hsl(35, 46%, 41%)oklch
oklch(0.577 0.09 74)Closest name: Capers (#897a3e)Relative luminance 0.1887
Colors that go with #997138
Champagne, Charcoal 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #997138, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #997138: 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 #997138 in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Magazine Ochre, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #997138: 7 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #997138: 5 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #997138 in 5 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 #997138, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #997138 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #997138
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #997138 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.4:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.77:1 | 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 #997138 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
#997138 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #997138
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 #997138 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/997138-c4b89c-62c0cb-2d2d1f-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