Color

#ad9daf

#ad9daf
hex#ad9daf
rgbrgb(173, 157, 175)
hslhsl(293, 10%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.715 0.031 322.4)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3609

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9faf9d

#a49daf · #af9da8

#afad9d · #9dafad

Split-complementary

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#a8af9d · #9dafa4

#afa49d · #9faf9d · #9da8af

Contrast

#ad9daf as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #846e87 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #635365 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.02:1)
Aaon black
8.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ad9daf 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 #ad9daf
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ad9daf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ad9daf-c19fc1-a1cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md