Color
#ad9901
#ad9901rgb(173, 153, 1)hsl(53, 99%, 34%)oklch(0.68 0.141 99.9)Colors that go with #ad9901
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.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #ad9901 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ad9901: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Forest Floor put Champagne beside #ad9901, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ad9901 in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Olive Grove, as the accent.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ad9901 in 4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Ubereats's brand system, as the accent.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ad9901 in 4 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #ad9901 in 4 real palettes, including Chevrolet's brand system and Guinness's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #ad9901: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Bakery, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ad9901
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ad9901 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.86:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.33:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ad9901 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
#ad9901 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ad9901 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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