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
#ae9ea3
#ae9ea3
hex
#ae9ea3rgb
rgb(174, 158, 163)hsl
hsl(341, 9%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.715 0.02 356.7)Closest name: Foggy Plum (#b7a5ad)Relative luminance 0.361
Colors that go with #ae9ea3
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 #ae9ea3 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Garden Wedding put Blush Pink beside #ae9ea3, as the accent.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #ae9ea3 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #ae9ea3, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ae9ea3: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ae9ea3 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae9ea3: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ae9ea3 in 5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Canopy, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae9ea3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.55:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.22:1 | 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 #ae9ea3 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
#ae9ea3 reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9ea3
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 #ae9ea3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ae9ea3-c49ca4-62cb77-2d211f-f1e9ef?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