Color

#ada8aa

#ada8aa
hex#ada8aa
rgbrgb(173, 168, 170)
hslhsl(336, 3%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.006 350.9)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3979

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8adab

#ada8ad · #ada9a8

#aaada8 · #a8aaad

Split-complementary

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#a8ada9 · #a8adad

#adada8 · #a8adab · #a9a8ad

Contrast

#ada8aa as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7b7477 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5c5759 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.96:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ada8aa 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

#ada8aa reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ada8aa
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 #ada8aa and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ada8aa-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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