Color

#997a70

#997a70
hex#997a70
rgbrgb(153, 122, 112)
hslhsl(15, 17%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.606 0.042 38.6)
Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2186

Colors that go with #997a70

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #997a70

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#708f99

#99707a · #998f70

#70997a · #7a7099

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#70998f · #707a99

#7a9970 · #708f99 · #8f7099

Contrast

#997a70 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.91:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c6e63 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #6b544c as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
5.37:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #aa9088 as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997a70 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

#997a70 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997a70
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 #997a70 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997a70-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md