Color

#adaaa9

#adaaa9
hex#adaaa9
rgbrgb(173, 170, 169)
hslhsl(15, 2%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.74 0.004 39.5)
Closest name: Cathedral (#acaaa7)Relative luminance 0.405

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9acad

#ada9aa · #adaca9

#a9adaa · #aaa9ad

Split-complementary

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#a9adac · #a9aaad

#aaada9 · #a9acad · #aca9ad

Contrast

#adaaa9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.31:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787473 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #5b5857 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.71:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.14:1)
Aaon black
9.1:1passpasspassPasses 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 #adaaa9 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

#adaaa9 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #adaaa9
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 #adaaa9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/adaaa9-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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