Color
#997f0b
#997f0brgb(153, 127, 11)hsl(49, 87%, 32%)oklch(0.603 0.121 94.1)Colors that go with #997f0b
Charcoal, Champagne and Denim 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #997f0b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #997f0b, as that palette's text colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #997f0b: 7 real palettes, including Dyson's brand system and Dusk, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #997f0b in 5 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #997f0b in 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Chevrolet's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #997f0b: 5 real palettes, including Cider and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #997f0b: 4 real palettes, including Riverbed and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
complementaryMedium Slate Blue sits directly opposite #997f0b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #997f0b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #997f0b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.89:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.4:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997f0b 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
#997f0b reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #997f0b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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