Color

#adaa9f

#adaa9f
hex#adaa9f
rgbrgb(173, 170, 159)
hslhsl(47, 8%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.016 94.3)
Closest name: Cathedral (#acaaa7)Relative luminance 0.4014

Colors that go with #adaa9f

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Champagne 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 #adaa9f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9fa2ad

#ada39f · #a9ad9f

#9fadaa · #aa9fad

Split-complementary

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#9fa9ad · #a39fad

#9fada3 · #9fa2ad · #ad9fa9

Contrast

#adaa9f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.33:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797567 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #5b584d as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.67:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.09:1)
Aaon black
9.03:1passpasspassPasses 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 #adaa9f 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

#adaa9f reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #adaa9f
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 #adaa9f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/adaa9f-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md