Color

#9f995b

#9f995b
hex#9f995b
rgbrgb(159, 153, 91)
hslhsl(55, 27%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.674 0.083 103.6)
Closest name: Backroom Ember (#a19250)Relative luminance 0.3091

Colors that go with #9f995b

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 #9f995b

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5b619f

#9f775b · #839f5b

#5b9f99 · #995b9f

Split-complementary

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#5b839f · #775b9f

#5b9f77 · #5b619f · #9f5b83

Contrast

#9f995b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.92:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7747 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5734 as the text (7.35:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #030303 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.18:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9f995b 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

#9f995b reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9f995b
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 #9f995b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9f995b-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md