Color

#ad99ab

#ad99ab
hex#ad99ab
rgbrgb(173, 153, 171)
hslhsl(306, 11%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.706 0.034 329.1)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3461

Colors that go with #ad99ab

Charcoal, Copper and Denim 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 #ad99ab

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#99ad9b

#a599ad · #ad99a1

#abad99 · #99abad

Split-complementary

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#a1ad99 · #99ada5

#ada599 · #99ad9b · #99a1ad

Contrast

#ad99ab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.65:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #886d85 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #665264 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.56:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
7.92:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ad99ab 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

#ad99ab reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ad99ab
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 #ad99ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad99ab-c19fb9-8acb62-2d1f26-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md