Stone
Open in tool →Stone greys with a faint warmth — Tailwind's stone scale used as a whole palette: interfaces that want to disappear.
Color
#aaa4a1
#aaa4a1
hex
#aaa4a1rgb
rgb(170, 164, 161)hsl
hsl(20, 5%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.723 0.008 48.6)Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3767
Colors that go with #aaa4a1
Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #aaa4a1 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shippedBlush Pink is paired with #aaa4a1 in 4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #aaa4a1 in 5 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #aaa4a1 in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #aaa4a1 in 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #aaa4a1 in 5 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #aaa4a1 in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedPowder Blue is paired with #aaa4a1 in 4 real palettes, including Stone and First Snow, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aaa4a1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.46:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.53:1 | 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 #aaa4a1 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#aaa4a1 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aaa4a1
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 #aaa4a1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aaa4a1-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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