Color

#aa99ad

#aa99ad
hex#aa99ad
rgbrgb(170, 153, 173)
hslhsl(291, 11%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.704 0.035 321.2)
Closest name: Machinery (#9999aa)Relative luminance 0.3435

Colors that go with #aa99ad

Charcoal, Medium Sea Green 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.

Real palettes that use #aa99ad

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9cad99

#a099ad · #ad99a6

#adaa99 · #99adaa

Split-complementary

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#a6ad99 · #99ada0

#ada099 · #9cad99 · #99a6ad

Contrast

#aa99ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #846d88 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #635266 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
7.87:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aa99ad 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 #aa99ad
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 #aa99ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aa99ad-bf9fc1-a4cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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