Color

#aea3a5

#aea3a5
hex#aea3a5
rgbrgb(174, 163, 165)
hslhsl(349, 6%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.013 4.9)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3791

Colors that go with #aea3a5

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 #aea3a5

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3aeac

#aea3aa · #aea6a3

#a5aea3 · #a3a5ae

Split-complementary

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#a3aea6 · #a3aaae

#aaaea3 · #a3aeac · #a6a3ae

Contrast

#aea3a5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.45:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #827376 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #615658 as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.11:1)
Aaon black
8.58:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aea3a5 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

#aea3a5 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea3a5
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 #aea3a5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aea3a5-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md