Color

#ad9999

#ad9999
hex#ad9999
rgbrgb(173, 153, 153)
hslhsl(0, 11%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.701 0.024 17.7)
Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3397

Colors that go with #ad9999

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #ad9999

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#99adad

#ad99a3 · #ada399

#99ad99 · #9999ad

Split-complementary

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#99ada3 · #99a3ad

#a3ad99 · #99adad · #a399ad

Contrast

#ad9999 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b6f6f as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #695454 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.79:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ad9999 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

#ad9999 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad9999
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 #ad9999 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad9999-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md