Color

#9c9563

#9c9563
hex#9c9563
rgbrgb(156, 149, 99)
hslhsl(53, 22%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.664 0.069 101.2)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.2946

Colors that go with #9c9563

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 #9c9563

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#636a9c

#9c7963 · #869c63

#639c95 · #95639c

Split-complementary

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#63869c · #79639c

#639c79 · #636a9c · #9c6386

Contrast

#9c9563 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.05:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #7c7750 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #5d593c as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.65:1)
Aaon black
6.89:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #9e9767 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 #9c9563 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

#9c9563 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9c9563
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 #9c9563 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9c9563-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md