Color

#9f985b

#9f985b
hex#9f985b
rgbrgb(159, 152, 91)
hslhsl(54, 27%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.671 0.082 102.6)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3058

Colors that go with #9f985b

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Blue 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 #9f985b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5b629f

#9f765b · #849f5b

#5b9f98 · #985b9f

Split-complementary

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#5b849f · #765b9f

#5b9f76 · #5b629f · #9f5b84

Contrast

#9f985b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.95:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7647 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5a36 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #000000 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.12:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #9f985b 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

#9f985b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9f985b
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 #9f985b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9f985b-bebea2-4ea2df-292d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md