Color

#9c8a11

#9c8a11
hex#9c8a11
rgbrgb(156, 138, 17)
hslhsl(52, 80%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.631 0.127 99.7)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2529

Colors that go with #9c8a11

Dodger Blue, 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.

Real palettes that use #9c8a11

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#11249c

#9c4411 · #699c11

#119c8a · #8a119c

Split-complementary

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#11699c · #44119c

#119c44 · #11249c · #9c1169

Contrast

#9c8a11 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.47:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #85750f as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #65590b as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.64:1)
Aaon black
6.06:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #aa9613 as the text (7.08:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9c8a11 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

#9c8a11 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9c8a11
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 #9c8a11 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9c8a11-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md