Color

#9e8933

#9e8933
hex#9e8933
rgbrgb(158, 137, 51)
hslhsl(48, 51%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.633 0.107 95.3)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.254

Colors that go with #9e8933

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 #9e8933

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#33499e

#9e5333 · #7e9e33

#339e89 · #89339e

Split-complementary

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#337e9e · #53339e

#339e53 · #33499e · #9e337e

Contrast

#9e8933 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.45:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #87752c as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #645720 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #212121 (4.66:1)
Aaon black
6.08:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9638 as the text (7.2:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9e8933 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

#9e8933 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9e8933
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 #9e8933 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9e8933-c4c09c-62aacb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md