Color

#aaadb5

#aaadb5
hex#aaadb5
rgbrgb(170, 173, 181)
hslhsl(224, 7%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.748 0.012 269.5)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.4177

Colors that go with #aaadb5

Charcoal, Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #aaadb5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b5b3aa

#aab3b5 · #adaab5

#b5aaad · #adb5aa

Split-complementary

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#b5adaa · #b3b5aa

#b5aab3 · #b5b3aa · #aab5ad

Contrast

#aaadb5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.25:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #727683 as the text (4.53:1)
  • AAA: use #555962 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
9.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aaadb5 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

#aaadb5 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaadb5
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 #aaadb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aaadb5-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md