Color
#ada996
#ada996rgb(173, 169, 150)hsl(50, 12%, 63%)oklch(0.733 0.027 97.2)Colors that go with #ada996
Charcoal, Blush Pink 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #ada996 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #ada996, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Bramble and Darkroom put Champagne beside #ada996, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ada996: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ada996 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #ada996 in 4 real palettes, including Bramble and Sepia Mono, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ada996 in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #ada996, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #ada996
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ada996 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.36:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.89:1 | 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 #ada996 as the background.
Brands using this color
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Fonts for this mood
#ada996 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #ada996 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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