Color

#9e882e

#9e882e
hex#9e882e
rgbrgb(158, 136, 46)
hslhsl(48, 55%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.63 0.11 95.1)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2507

Colors that go with #9e882e

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 #9e882e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e449e

#9e502e · #7c9e2e

#2e9e88 · #882e9e

Split-complementary

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#2e7c9e · #502e9e

#2e9e50 · #2e449e · #9e2e7c

Contrast

#9e882e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.49:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #867327 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #67581e as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.01:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ae9532 as the text (7.14:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9e882e 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

#9e882e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9e882e
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 #9e882e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9e882e-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md