Color

#9f986f

#9f986f
hex#9f986f
rgbrgb(159, 152, 111)
hslhsl(51, 20%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.675 0.057 99.6)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.3098

Colors that go with #9f986f

Charcoal, Cornflower Blue and Burlywood 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 #9f986f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6f769f

#9f806f · #8e9f6f

#6f9f98 · #986f9f

Split-complementary

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#6f8e9f · #806f9f

#6f9f80 · #6f769f · #9f6f8e

Contrast

#9f986f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7754 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #5c573d as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.2:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9f986f 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

#9f986f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9f986f
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 #9f986f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9f986f-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md