Color

#ad451f

#ad451f
hex#ad451f
rgbrgb(173, 69, 31)
hslhsl(16, 70%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.525 0.145 39.1)
Closest name: Rust (#b7410e)Relative luminance 0.1324

Colors that go with #ad451f

Crimson, Sea Green and Teal 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 #ad451f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1f87ad

#ad1f40 · #ad8c1f

#1fad45 · #451fad

Split-complementary

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#1fad8c · #1f40ad

#40ad1f · #1f87ad · #8c1fad

Contrast

#ad451f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.76:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #983c1b as the text (7.01:1)
Aaon black
3.65:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #c74f23 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #e17b56 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.61:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad451f 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

Fonts for this mood

#ad451f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad451f
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 #ad451f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad451f-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md