Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
Color
#9d8a85
#9d8a85
hex
#9d8a85rgb
rgb(157, 138, 133)hsl
hsl(12, 11%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.649 0.024 35.1)Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2704
Colors that go with #9d8a85
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #9d8a85 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #9d8a85, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #9d8a85 in 4 real palettes, including Kiln and Coffee Bar, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #9d8a85, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #9d8a85: 6 real palettes, including Atelier and Clay & Linen, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9d8a85 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9d8a85: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #9d8a85: 4 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Spline's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #9d8a85
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9d8a85 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.28:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.41:1 | 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 #9d8a85 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
#9d8a85 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9d8a85
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #9d8a85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9d8a85-c4a99c-62cbad-2d281f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md