Color

#ad871f

#ad871f
hex#ad871f
rgbrgb(173, 135, 31)
hslhsl(44, 70%, 40%)
oklchoklch(0.643 0.122 86.8)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2631

Colors that go with #ad871f

Cadet Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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 #ad871f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#1f45ad

#ad401f · #8cad1f

#1fad87 · #871fad

Split-complementary

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#1f8cad · #401fad

#1fad40 · #1f45ad · #ad1f8c

Contrast

#ad871f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.35:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8f7019 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5513 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.26:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #ba9121 as the text (7.16:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad871f 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

#ad871f reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad871f
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 #ad871f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad871f-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md