Color

#9d8939

#9d8939
hex#9d8939
rgbrgb(157, 137, 57)
hslhsl(48, 47%, 42%)
oklchoklch(0.632 0.102 95.3)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2535

Colors that go with #9d8939

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #9d8939

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#394d9d

#9d5739 · #7f9d39

#399d89 · #89399d

Split-complementary

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#397f9d · #57399d

#399d57 · #394d9d · #9d397f

Contrast

#9d8939 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.46:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #877631 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #655824 as the text (7.06:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.66:1)
Aaon black
6.07:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ac963e as the text (7.19:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9d8939 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

#9d8939 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9d8939
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 #9d8939 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9d8939-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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