Color

#9d976c

#9d976c
hex#9d976c
rgbrgb(157, 151, 108)
hslhsl(53, 20%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.671 0.06 101.1)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3038

Colors that go with #9d976c

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 #9d976c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6c729d

#9d7f6c · #8a9d6c

#6c9d97 · #976c9d

Split-complementary

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#6c8a9d · #7f6c9d

#6c9d7f · #6c729d · #9d6c8a

Contrast

#9d976c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7652 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5c583d as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.08:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9d976c 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

#9d976c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9d976c
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 #9d976c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9d976c-c4c49c-4ea5df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md