Color

#ada885

#ada885
hex#ada885
rgbrgb(173, 168, 133)
hslhsl(52, 20%, 60%)
oklchoklch(0.727 0.049 100.7)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3858

Colors that go with #ada885

Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#858aad

#ad9485 · #9ead85

#85ada8 · #a885ad

Split-complementary

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#859ead · #9485ad

#85ad94 · #858aad · #ad859e

Contrast

#ada885 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a7552 as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #5c583d as the text (7.2:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.72:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ada885 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

#ada885 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ada885
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 #ada885 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ada885-c4c39c-4ea7df-292d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md