Color

#adb1cd

#adb1cd
hex#adb1cd
rgbrgb(173, 177, 205)
hslhsl(233, 24%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.766 0.04 279)
Closest name: Ethereal Mist (#b0b8cc)Relative luminance 0.4474

Colors that go with #adb1cd

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 →

#cdc9ad

#adc0cd · #b9adcd

#cdadb1 · #b1cdad

Split-complementary

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#cdb9ad · #c0cdad

#cdadc0 · #cdc9ad · #adcdb9

Contrast

#adb1cd as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a71a4 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #4f5582 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.17:1)
Aaon black
9.95:1passpasspassPasses 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 #adb1cd 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

#adb1cd reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #adb1cd
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 #adb1cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/adb1cd-9c9cc4-df884e-241f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md