Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#adc1cc
#adc1cc
hex
#adc1ccrgb
rgb(173, 193, 204)hsl
hsl(201, 23%, 74%)oklch
oklch(0.799 0.027 231.7)Closest name: Airborne (#a2c2d0)Relative luminance 0.5138
Colors that go with #adc1cc
Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #adc1cc without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #adc1cc: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #adc1cc in 6 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #adc1cc: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Calm's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #adc1cc: 6 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including Lavender Milk and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #adc1cc, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #adc1cc, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #adc1cc in 4 real palettes, including Telehealth and 1password's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #adc1cc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #adc1cc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.86:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.28:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #adc1cc as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#adc1cc reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #adc1cc
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #adc1cc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/adc1cc-9cb1c4-df4e62-1f222d-e9f1f0?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md