Color

#9f996f

#9f996f
hex#9f996f
rgbrgb(159, 153, 111)
hslhsl(52, 20%, 53%)
oklchoklch(0.677 0.059 100.9)
Closest name: A Frond in Need (#9f9978)Relative luminance 0.313

Colors that go with #9f996f

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 #9f996f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#6f769f

#9f816f · #8e9f6f

#6f9f99 · #996f9f

Split-complementary

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#6f8e9f · #816f9f

#6f9f81 · #6f769f · #9f6f8e

Contrast

#9f996f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7552 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #5c583d as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.05:1)
Aaon black
7.26:1passpasspassPasses 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 #9f996f 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

#9f996f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #9f996f
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 #9f996f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/9f996f-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md