Color

#9c8a6d

#9c8a6d
hex#9c8a6d
rgbrgb(156, 138, 109)
hslhsl(37, 19%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.642 0.046 79.6)
Closest name: Banner Gold (#a28557)Relative luminance 0.2635

Colors that go with #9c8a6d

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 #9c8a6d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6d7f9c

#9c736d · #969c6d

#6d9c8a · #8a6d9c

Split-complementary

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#6d969c · #736d9c

#6d9c73 · #6d7f9c · #9c6d96

Contrast

#9c8a6d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.35:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #827359 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #615542 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.27:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #a49479 as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9c8a6d as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#9c8a6d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9c8a6d
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 #9c8a6d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9c8a6d-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md