Color
#9b696e
#9b696ergb(155, 105, 110)hsl(354, 20%, 51%)oklch(0.575 0.065 12.7)Colors that go with #9b696e
Charcoal, Champagne and Dark Olive Green 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 #9b696e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #9b696e, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9b696e in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and BrandSweets's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #9b696e in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Harvest, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9b696e in 5 real palettes, including Bookshop and Desert Road, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Peru beside #9b696e, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #9b696e in 5 real palettes, including Slate Workspace and Zed's brand system, as the accent.
Sea Green #2e8b57
triadicshippedSea Green completes a triad with #9b696e — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #9b696e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9b696e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
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Aaon white | 4.53:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.64:1 | 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 #9b696e as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#9b696e reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #9b696e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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