Color
#9e701a
#9e701argb(158, 112, 26)hsl(39, 72%, 36%)oklch(0.578 0.112 77.5)Colors that go with #9e701a
Royal Blue, Champagne and Dark Olive 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.
Royal Blue #4169e1
complementaryshippedRoyal Blue sits directly opposite #9e701a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #9e701a, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9e701a in 4 real palettes, including Magazine Ochre and Cider, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #9e701a in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Bookshop, as the lead colour.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Coffee Bar put Peru beside #9e701a, as the lead colour.
Rust #b7410e
analogousshippedRust is #9e701a's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #9e701a: 4 real palettes, including Bookshop and Bakery, as the lead colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #9e701a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #9e701a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9e701a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.39:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.79:1 | 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 #9e701a 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
#9e701a 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 #9e701a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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