Color
#ada3bd
#ada3bdrgb(173, 163, 189)hsl(263, 16%, 69%)oklch(0.732 0.039 302.9)Colors that go with #ada3bd
Charcoal, Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #ada3bd: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #ada3bd, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ada3bd in 4 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ada3bd: 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ada3bd: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Studio Grey, as the lead colour.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ada3bd in 4 real palettes, including Scale AI's brand system and Supabase's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ada3bd in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Pine & Birch, as the lead colour.
Dark Sea Green #8fbc8f
complementaryDark Sea Green sits directly opposite #ada3bd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #ada3bd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ada3bd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.75:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ada3bd as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ada3bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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