Color
#9d830b
#9d830brgb(157, 131, 11)hsl(49, 87%, 33%)oklch(0.616 0.124 94.6)Colors that go with #9d830b
Champagne, Charcoal and Dodger Blue 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
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #9d830b, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #9d830b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #9d830b: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Opensea's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9d830b in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #9d830b: 5 real palettes, including Cider and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Atelier and Riverbed put Slate Gray beside #9d830b, as the supporting colour.
Tan #d2b48c
shippedTan is paired with #9d830b in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the supporting colour.
Medium Slate Blue #7b68ee
complementaryMedium Slate Blue sits directly opposite #9d830b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #9d830b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9d830b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.69:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.68:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9d830b 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
#9d830b 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 #9d830b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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