Color

#9b987d

#9b987d
hex#9b987d
rgbrgb(155, 152, 125)
hslhsl(54, 13%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.675 0.038 102.1)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3091

Colors that go with #9b987d

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blush Pink 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 #9b987d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7d809b

#9b897d · #8f9b7d

#7d9b98 · #987d9b

Split-complementary

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#7d8f9b · #897d9b

#7d9b89 · #7d809b · #9b7d8f

Contrast

#9b987d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #79765d as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #595745 as the text (7.31:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.18:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9b987d 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

#9b987d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9b987d
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 #9b987d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9b987d-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md