Color

#ad995c

#ad995c
hex#ad995c
rgbrgb(173, 153, 92)
hslhsl(45, 33%, 52%)
oklchoklch(0.687 0.084 91.9)
Closest name: Amaretto Sour (#c09856)Relative luminance 0.3244

Colors that go with #ad995c

Cadet Blue, Charcoal 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 #ad995c

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#5c70ad

#ad705c · #99ad5c

#5cad99 · #995cad

Split-complementary

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#5c99ad · #705cad

#5cad70 · #5c70ad · #ad5c99

Contrast

#ad995c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #847443 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #625632 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.06:1)
Aaon black
7.49:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ad995c as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#ad995c reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad995c
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 #ad995c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad995c-c4be9c-62afcb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md