Color

#aca7ae

#aca7ae
hex#aca7ae
rgbrgb(172, 167, 174)
hslhsl(283, 4%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.011 316.5)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3946

Colors that go with #aca7ae

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #aca7ae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a9aea7

#a9a7ae · #aea7ad

#aeaca7 · #a7aeac

Split-complementary

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#adaea7 · #a7aea9

#aea9a7 · #a9aea7 · #a7adae

Contrast

#aca7ae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7a737d as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #5b565d as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.22:1)
Aaon black
8.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aca7ae 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

#aca7ae reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aca7ae
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 #aca7ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aca7ae-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md