Color

#997c5c

#997c5c
hex#997c5c
rgbrgb(153, 124, 92)
hslhsl(31, 25%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.606 0.058 69.1)
Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2196

Colors that go with #997c5c

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #997c5c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5c7999

#995d5c · #98995c

#5c997b · #7b5c99

Split-complementary

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#5c9899 · #5d5c99

#5c995d · #5c7999 · #995c98

Contrast

#997c5c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.89:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c7154 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #69553f as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
5.39:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9276 as the text (7.15:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997c5c 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

#997c5c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997c5c
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 #997c5c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997c5c-c4b59c-62c7cb-2d2c1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md