Color

#adadbd

#adadbd
hex#adadbd
rgbrgb(173, 173, 189)
hslhsl(240, 11%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.753 0.023 285.8)
Closest name: Nebulous December (#b3b2bf)Relative luminance 0.4245

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#bdbdad

#adb5bd · #b5adbd

#bdadad · #adbdad

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#bdb5ad · #b5bdad

#bdadb5 · #bdbdad · #adbdb5

Contrast

#adadbd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.21:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #747490 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #56566c as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.49:1passpasspassPasses 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 #adadbd 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

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

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

tool url/palettes/new/adadbd-a19cc4-df994e-251f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md