Color

#ada299

#ada299
hex#ada299
rgbrgb(173, 162, 153)
hslhsl(27, 11%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.719 0.018 61.9)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3702

Colors that go with #ada299

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #ada299

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#99a4ad

#ad999a · #adac99

#99ada2 · #a299ad

Split-complementary

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#99adac · #999aad

#9aad99 · #99a4ad · #ac99ad

Contrast

#ada299 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.5:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827468 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #60564d as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
8.4:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ada299 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

Fonts for this mood

#ada299 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ada299
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 #ada299 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ada299-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md