Color

#adadcd

#adadcd
hex#adadcd
rgbrgb(173, 173, 205)
hslhsl(240, 24%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.758 0.046 285.3)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4318

Colors that go with #adadcd

Charcoal, Sand and Copper 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 #adadcd

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#cdcdad

#adbdcd · #bdadcd

#cdadad · #adcdad

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#cdbdad · #bdcdad

#cdadbd · #cdcdad · #adcdbd

Contrast

#adadcd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.18:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7171a8 as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #535388 as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #adadcd 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

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

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

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

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Machine-readable: color.md