Color

#ad8a71

#ad8a71
hex#ad8a71
rgbrgb(173, 138, 113)
hslhsl(25, 27%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.056 57.1)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2825

Colors that go with #ad8a71

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 #ad8a71

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7194ad

#ad7176 · #ada871

#71ad8a · #8a71ad

Split-complementary

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#71ada8 · #7176ad

#76ad71 · #7194ad · #a871ad

Contrast

#ad8a71 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.16:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #926e54 as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #6e533f as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.61:1)
Aaon black
6.65:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b18f77 as the text (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad8a71 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

#ad8a71 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad8a71
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 #ad8a71 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad8a71-c4b19c-62cbc4-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md