Color
#a9daad
#a9daadrgb(169, 218, 173)hsl(125, 40%, 76%)oklch(0.842 0.08 147)Colors that go with #a9daad
Charcoal, Plum and Cadet Blue 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 body-text near-black for #a9daad: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #a9daad on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #a9daad: 4 real palettes, including Estate and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #a9daad in 6 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Frost & Ember, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #a9daad: 6 real palettes, including Astro's brand system and Prime Video's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #a9daad in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #a9daad: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including American Eagle's brand system and Allbirds's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #a9daad, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a9daad
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a9daad as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.58:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.32:1 | 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 #a9daad 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
#a9daad reads as light, clean. 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 #a9daad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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