Color

#9e8a33

#9e8a33
hex#9e8a33
rgbrgb(158, 138, 51)
hslhsl(49, 51%, 41%)
oklchoklch(0.635 0.108 96.2)
Closest name: Captain Kirk (#9b870c)Relative luminance 0.2569

Colors that go with #9e8a33

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 #9e8a33

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#33479e

#9e5533 · #7c9e33

#339e8a · #8a339e

Split-complementary

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#337c9e · #55339e

#339e55 · #33479e · #9e337c

Contrast

#9e8a33 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.42:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #87762c as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #645820 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #242424 (4.54:1)
Aaon black
6.14:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ad9838 as the text (7.33:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9e8a33 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

#9e8a33 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9e8a33
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 #9e8a33 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9e8a33-c4c19c-4eaedf-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md