Color

#ad8905

#ad8905
hex#ad8905
rgbrgb(173, 137, 5)
hslhsl(47, 94%, 35%)
oklchoklch(0.646 0.131 89.8)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2679

Colors that go with #ad8905

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 #ad8905

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#052aad

#ad3505 · #7ead05

#05ad89 · #8905ad

Split-complementary

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#057ead · #3505ad

#05ad35 · #052aad · #ad057e

Contrast

#ad8905 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.3:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8f7104 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6d5603 as the text (7.04:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #262626 (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.36:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b79106 as the text (7.07:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad8905 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

#ad8905 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad8905
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 #ad8905 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad8905-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md