Color

#ad8d52

#ad8d52
hex#ad8d52
rgbrgb(173, 141, 82)
hslhsl(39, 36%, 50%)
oklchoklch(0.66 0.086 81.6)
Closest name: Barista’s Favourite (#bb8d4e)Relative luminance 0.2854

Colors that go with #ad8d52

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #ad8d52

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5272ad

#ad5f52 · #a0ad52

#52ad8d · #8d52ad

Split-complementary

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#52a0ad · #5f52ad

#52ad5f · #5272ad · #ad52a0

Contrast

#ad8d52 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.13:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #8b7141 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #685531 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.52:1)
Aaon black
6.71:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b19259 as the text (7.13:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad8d52 as the background.

Brands using this color

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ad8d52 reads as warm. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad8d52
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 #ad8d52 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad8d52-c4ba9c-62b9cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md