Color

#997d14

#997d14
hex#997d14
rgbrgb(153, 125, 20)
hslhsl(47, 77%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.599 0.117 92.1)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2149

Colors that go with #997d14

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 #997d14

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#143199

#993a14 · #749914

#14997d · #7d1499

Split-complementary

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#147499 · #3a1499

#14993a · #143199 · #991474

Contrast

#997d14 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.96:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c7212 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #68540d as the text (7.34:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
5.3:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b59317 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 #997d14 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

#997d14 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997d14
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 #997d14 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997d14-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md