Color
#999938
#999938rgb(153, 153, 56)hsl(60, 46%, 41%)oklch(0.664 0.119 109.2)Colors that go with #999938
Medium Purple, Cadet 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.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #999938 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #999938 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #999938 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #999938: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #999938 in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Bakery, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #999938 in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Cider, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #999938 in 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #999938 in 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #999938
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #999938 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.01:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.97:1 | 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 #999938 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #999938 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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