Atelier
Open in tool →Black on bone with a whisper of gold: the runway default that lets garments carry the color.
Color
#997f56
#997f56
hex
#997f56rgb
rgb(153, 127, 86)hsl
hsl(37, 28%, 47%)oklch
oklch(0.611 0.065 78.5)Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2262
Colors that go with #997f56
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #997f56: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #997f56, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #997f56, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #997f56 in 5 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Cider, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #997f56: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #997f56: 4 real palettes, including Notion's brand system and Studio Grey, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #997f56 in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Harvest, as the lead colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #997f56 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 #997f56
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #997f56 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.8:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.52:1 | pass | pass | fail |
|
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #997f56 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#997f56 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #997f56
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #997f56 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/997f56-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md