Color

#aea49e

#aea49e
hex#aea49e
rgbrgb(174, 164, 158)
hslhsl(23, 9%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.014 53.3)
Closest name: Elephant in the Room (#a8a9a8)Relative luminance 0.3802

Colors that go with #aea49e

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 #aea49e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ea8ae

#ae9ea0 · #aeac9e

#9eaea4 · #a49eae

Split-complementary

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#9eaeac · #9ea0ae

#a0ae9e · #9ea8ae · #ac9eae

Contrast

#aea49e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.44:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #80736b as the text (4.58:1)
  • AAA: use #615751 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1a1a1a (7.13:1)
Aaon black
8.6:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aea49e 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

#aea49e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea49e
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 #aea49e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aea49e-c4b09c-62cbc0-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md