Color

#997d5c

#997d5c
hex#997d5c
rgbrgb(153, 125, 92)
hslhsl(32, 25%, 48%)
oklchoklch(0.608 0.058 71)
Closest name: Antique (#8b846d)Relative luminance 0.2221

Colors that go with #997d5c

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 #997d5c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5c7899

#995e5c · #97995c

#5c997c · #7c5c99

Split-complementary

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#5c9799 · #5e5c99

#5c995e · #5c7899 · #995c97

Contrast

#997d5c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.86:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c7254 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #66533d as the text (7.32:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (4.51:1)
Aaon black
5.44:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ab9173 as the text (7.03:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997d5c 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

#997d5c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997d5c
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 #997d5c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997d5c-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md