Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
Color
#9f877f
#9f877f
hex
#9f877frgb
rgb(159, 135, 127)hsl
hsl(15, 14%, 56%)oklch
oklch(0.643 0.032 39.3)Closest name: Argent (#888888)Relative luminance 0.2623
Colors that go with #9f877f
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #9f877f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Estate and Graphite Mono put Blush Pink beside #9f877f, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #9f877f, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #9f877f in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Oatmeal, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #9f877f: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #9f877f: 4 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Notion's brand system, as the accent.
Goldenrod #daa520
shippedGoldenrod shows up next to #9f877f in 4 real palettes, including Noir Beauty and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #9f877f — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #9f877f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9f877f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.36:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.25:1 | 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 #9f877f as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Sepia Mono
Open in tool →A single warm brown from espresso to oat — the sepia scale as a working palette, not a filter.
Fonts for this mood
#9f877f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #9f877f
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #9f877f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/9f877f-c4ab9c-62cbb2-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md