Color

#97adba

#97adba
hex#97adba
rgbrgb(151, 173, 186)
hslhsl(202, 20%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.031 233.8)
Closest name: Pewter (#8ba8b7)Relative luminance 0.4001

Colors that go with #97adba

Charcoal, Dark Salmon 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 #97adba

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#baa497

#97bab5 · #979cba

#ba97ad · #adba97

Split-complementary

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#ba979c · #bab597

#b597ba · #baa497 · #9cba97

Contrast

#97adba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5c798a as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #455b68 as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.07:1)
Aaon black
9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #97adba as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #97adba
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 #97adba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/97adba-9cb1c4-df4e5f-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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