Color

#999656

#999656
hex#999656
rgbrgb(153, 150, 86)
hslhsl(57, 28%, 47%)
oklchoklch(0.661 0.086 106.2)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2926

Colors that go with #999656

Charcoal, Medium Purple and Blue 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 #999656

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#565a99

#997456 · #7b9956

#569996 · #965699

Split-complementary

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#567b99 · #745699

#569974 · #565a99 · #99567b

Contrast

#999656 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.07:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #797644 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5933 as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.62:1)
Aaon black
6.85:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9d9958 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #999656 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

#999656 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #999656
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 #999656 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/999656-bcbea2-4e9bdf-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md