Color

#aea39e

#aea39e
hex#aea39e
rgbrgb(174, 163, 158)
hslhsl(19, 9%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.723 0.015 46.2)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3766

Colors that go with #aea39e

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.

Real palettes that use #aea39e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ea9ae

#ae9ea1 · #aeab9e

#9eaea3 · #a39eae

Split-complementary

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#9eaeab · #9ea1ae

#a1ae9e · #9ea9ae · #ab9eae

Contrast

#aea39e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.46:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80716b as the text (4.67:1)
  • AAA: use #615651 as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.53:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aea39e 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

#aea39e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea39e
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 #aea39e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aea39e-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md