Color

#997e24

#997e24
hex#997e24
rgbrgb(153, 126, 36)
hslhsl(46, 62%, 37%)
oklchoklch(0.602 0.11 91.5)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2182

Colors that go with #997e24

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 #997e24

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#243f99

#994324 · #7a9924

#24997e · #7e2499

Split-complementary

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#247a99 · #432499

#249943 · #243f99 · #99247a

Contrast

#997e24 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.91:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8c7321 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #675518 as the text (7.27:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #171717 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
5.36:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b2922a as the text (7.04:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997e24 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

#997e24 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #997e24
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 #997e24 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/997e24-c4bf9c-62adcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md