Color

#ad8b2e

#ad8b2e
hex#ad8b2e
rgbrgb(173, 139, 46)
hslhsl(44, 58%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.652 0.116 88.1)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2755

Colors that go with #ad8b2e

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 #ad8b2e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e50ad

#ad4c2e · #90ad2e

#2ead8b · #8b2ead

Split-complementary

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#2e90ad · #4c2ead

#2ead4c · #2e50ad · #ad2e90

Contrast

#ad8b2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.23:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d7125 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #69541c as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.51:1)
Aaon black
6.51:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b59230 as the text (7.12:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad8b2e 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

#ad8b2e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad8b2e
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 #ad8b2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad8b2e-c4be9c-62b1cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md