Color

#ada4a5

#ada4a5
hex#ada4a5
rgbrgb(173, 164, 165)
hslhsl(353, 5%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.727 0.011 9.6)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3815

Colors that go with #ada4a5

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 #ada4a5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a4adac

#ada4a9 · #ada7a4

#a5ada4 · #a4a5ad

Split-complementary

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#a4ada7 · #a4a9ad

#a9ada4 · #a4adac · #a7a4ad

Contrast

#ada4a5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.43:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7e7273 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5e5556 as the text (7.22:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7:1)
Aaon black
8.63:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ada4a5 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

#ada4a5 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ada4a5
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 #ada4a5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ada4a5-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md