Color

#adb0dc

#adb0dc
hex#adb0dc
rgbrgb(173, 176, 220)
hslhsl(236, 40%, 77%)
oklchoklch(0.77 0.063 281.8)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.451

Colors that go with #adb0dc

Charcoal, Sand and Amber 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

Open in tool →

#dcd9ad

#adc7dc · #c1addc

#dcadb0 · #b0dcad

Split-complementary

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#dcc1ad · #c7dcad

#dcadc7 · #dcd9ad · #addcc1

Contrast

#adb0dc as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.1:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #696fbf as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #484ea8 as the text (7.17:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.22:1)
Aaon black
10.02:1passpasspassPasses 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 #adb0dc 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

#adb0dc reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #adb0dc
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 #adb0dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/adb0dc-9e9cc4-df8f4e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md