Color
#997b0f
#997b0frgb(153, 123, 15)hsl(47, 82%, 33%)oklch(0.595 0.118 90.9)Colors that go with #997b0f
Charcoal, Royal Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #997b0f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #997b0f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #997b0f, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #997b0f in 4 real palettes, including Cider and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #997b0f: 6 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #997b0f, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #997b0f: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #997b0f: 4 real palettes, including Riverbed and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #997b0f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #997b0f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.04:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.19:1 | 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 #997b0f 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
#997b0f reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #997b0f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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