Cider
Open in tool →Rust, honey and a moss green on cream — the orchard palette; the green keeps it from being all one temperature.
Color
#ad8a38
#ad8a38
hex
#ad8a38rgb
rgb(173, 138, 56)hsl
hsl(42, 51%, 45%)oklch
oklch(0.651 0.108 85.6)Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2735
Colors that go with #ad8a38
Blush Pink, Cadet Blue and Champagne 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.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Cartier's brand system put Blush Pink beside #ad8a38, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #ad8a38 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Woodsmoke put Champagne beside #ad8a38, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ad8a38: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ad8a38 in 6 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ad8a38: 5 real palettes, including Opensea's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Firebrick #b22222
shippedDesigners have shipped Firebrick with #ad8a38: 4 real palettes, including Newsprint and Chipotle's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ad8a38 in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Desert Road, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ad8a38
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ad8a38 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.47:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad8a38 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
#ad8a38 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad8a38
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #ad8a38 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ad8a38-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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