Color

#ada6de

#ada6de
hex#ada6de
rgbrgb(173, 166, 222)
hslhsl(248, 46%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.751 0.08 290.1)
Closest name: Violet Velvet (#b19cd9)Relative luminance 0.4143

Colors that go with #ada6de

Charcoal, Dark Khaki and Deep Sky Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#d6dea6

#a6bade · #c9a6de

#deada6 · #a6dead

Split-complementary

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#dec9a6 · #badea6

#dea6ba · #d6dea6 · #a6dec9

Contrast

#ada6de as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.26:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7366c7 as the text (4.71:1)
  • AAA: use #5445ba as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.29:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ada6de 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

#ada6de reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ada6de
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 #ada6de and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ada6de-a69cc4-dfac4e-271f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md