Color

#adad8a

#adad8a
hex#adad8a
rgbrgb(173, 173, 138)
hslhsl(60, 18%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.738 0.048 107.5)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.4061

Colors that go with #adad8a

Charcoal, Lilac and 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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#8a8aad

#ad9c8a · #9cad8a

#8aadad · #ad8aad

Split-complementary

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#8a9cad · #9c8aad

#8aad9c · #8a8aad · #ad8a9c

Contrast

#adad8a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #787854 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #5a5a3f as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.5:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.12:1passpasspassPasses 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 #adad8a 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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #adad8a
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 #adad8a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/adad8a-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md