Color

#ad8a85

#ad8a85
hex#ad8a85
rgbrgb(173, 138, 133)
hslhsl(7, 20%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.665 0.044 27.7)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2875

Colors that go with #ad8a85

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 #ad8a85

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#85a9ad

#ad8594 · #ad9e85

#85ad89 · #8985ad

Split-complementary

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#85ad9e · #8594ad

#94ad85 · #85a9ad · #9e85ad

Contrast

#ad8a85 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.11:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #966a64 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #71504b as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.55:1)
Aaon black
6.75:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b18f8b as the text (7.17:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad8a85 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

#ad8a85 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad8a85
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 #ad8a85 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad8a85-c4a59c-62cba4-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md