Color

#997e06

#997e06
hex#997e06
rgbrgb(153, 126, 6)
hslhsl(49, 92%, 31%)
oklchoklch(0.601 0.122 93.6)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2171

Colors that go with #997e06

Champagne, Saddle Brown and Sage Green 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 #997e06

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#062198

#983406 · #6a9806

#06987d · #7d0698

Split-complementary

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#066a98 · #340698

#069834 · #062198 · #98066a

Contrast

#997e06 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.93:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #897106 as the text (4.74:1)
  • AAA: use #675504 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.56:1)
Aaon black
5.34:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b59508 as the text (7.27:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997e06 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

#997e06 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997e06
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 #997e06 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997e06-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md