Color

#ad8d2e

#ad8d2e
hex#ad8d2e
rgbrgb(173, 141, 46)
hslhsl(45, 58%, 43%)
oklchoklch(0.656 0.117 89.7)
Closest name: Arrowwood (#b3861e)Relative luminance 0.2813

Colors that go with #ad8d2e

Cadet Blue, Blush Pink 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.

Real palettes that use #ad8d2e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#2e4ead

#ad4e2e · #8dad2e

#2ead8d · #8d2ead

Split-complementary

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#2e8dad · #4e2ead

#2ead4e · #2e4ead · #ad2e8d

Contrast

#ad8d2e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.17:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8d7325 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #69561c as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.59:1)
Aaon black
6.63:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b59430 as the text (7.24:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad8d2e 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

#ad8d2e reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad8d2e
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 #ad8d2e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad8d2e-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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