Color

#abad8a

#abad8a
hex#abad8a
rgbrgb(171, 173, 138)
hslhsl(63, 18%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.048 110.2)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4038

Colors that go with #abad8a

Charcoal, Lilac and 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8b8aad

#ad9d8a · #9aad8a

#8aacad · #ad8aac

Split-complementary

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#8a9aad · #9d8aad

#8aad9d · #8b8aad · #ad8a9a

Contrast

#abad8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #777854 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #595a3f as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.08:1passpasspassPasses 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 #abad8a as the background.

Brands using this color

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

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #abad8a
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 #abad8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/abad8a-b9bea2-4e8ddf-262d1f-f1eee9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md