Color

#a4adaa

#a4adaa
hex#a4adaa
rgbrgb(164, 173, 170)
hslhsl(160, 5%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.74 0.011 174.1)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.4068

Colors that go with #a4adaa

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 #a4adaa

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ada4a7

#a4ada5 · #a4abad

#aaa4ad · #adaaa4

Split-complementary

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#ada4ab · #ada5a4

#a5a4ad · #ada4a7 · #abada4

Contrast

#a4adaa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6d7875 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #525b58 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.14:1passpasspassPasses 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 #a4adaa 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

#a4adaa reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #a4adaa
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 #a4adaa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/a4adaa-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md