Color
#9d6401
#9d6401rgb(157, 100, 1)hsl(38, 99%, 31%)oklch(0.552 0.119 70.7)Colors that go with #9d6401
Champagne, Hunter Green and Sage 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.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and BrandSweets's brand system put Champagne beside #9d6401, as that palette's text colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9d6401 in 6 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #9d6401: 6 real palettes, including Riverbed and Homestead, as the supporting colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Atelier and Riverbed put Slate Gray beside #9d6401, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9d6401 in 21 real palettes, including Chipotle's brand system and Notion's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
complementarySteel Blue sits directly opposite #9d6401 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Teal #008080
split-complementshippedTeal is a split-complement of #9d6401: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #9d6401: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #9d6401
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9d6401 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.93:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 4.26:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9d6401 as the background.
Brands using this color
Fonts for this mood
#9d6401 reads as warm, vivid, playful. 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 #9d6401 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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