Color

#ad8a8d

#ad8a8d
hex#ad8a8d
rgbrgb(173, 138, 141)
hslhsl(355, 18%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.667 0.043 12.5)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2898

Colors that go with #ad8a8d

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #ad8a8d

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8aadaa

#ad8a9f · #ad998a

#8dad8a · #8a8dad

Split-complementary

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#8aad99 · #8a9fad

#9fad8a · #8aadaa · #998aad

Contrast

#ad8a8d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.09:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #96696c as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #724f52 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.58:1)
Aaon black
6.8:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b08d90 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 #ad8a8d 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

#ad8a8d reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad8a8d
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 #ad8a8d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad8a8d-c49e9c-62cb8f-2d241f-f1e9ee?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md