Color

#997c15

#997c15
hex#997c15
rgbrgb(153, 124, 21)
hslhsl(47, 76%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.597 0.116 91.3)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2124

Colors that go with #997c15

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.

Real palettes that use #997c15

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#153199

#993a15 · #739915

#15997c · #7c1599

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#157399 · #3a1599

#15993a · #153199 · #991573

Contrast

#997c15 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
4:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b7113 as the text (4.7:1)
  • AAA: use #67540e as the text (7.37:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #141414 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
5.25:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b49218 as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997c15 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

#997c15 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997c15
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 #997c15 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997c15-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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