Color

#ad8885

#ad8885
hex#ad8885
rgbrgb(173, 136, 133)
hslhsl(4, 20%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.661 0.046 23.7)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2819

Colors that go with #ad8885

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #ad8885

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#85abad

#ad8596 · #ad9c85

#85ad87 · #8785ad

Split-complementary

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#85ad9c · #8596ad

#96ad85 · #85abad · #9c85ad

Contrast

#ad8885 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #996966 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #714e4b as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.64:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b18d8b as the text (7.05:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad8885 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

#ad8885 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad8885
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 #ad8885 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad8885-c4a39c-62cb9f-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md