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
#aea5a2
#aea5a2
hex
#aea5a2rgb
rgb(174, 165, 162)hsl
hsl(15, 7%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.729 0.011 39.4)Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3852
Colors that go with #aea5a2
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 #aea5a2 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #aea5a2, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #aea5a2 in 5 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Darkroom and Bramble put Champagne beside #aea5a2, as the surface under it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aea5a2: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #aea5a2 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aea5a2: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #aea5a2 in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aea5a2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.41:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.7:1 | 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 #aea5a2 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
#aea5a2 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea5a2
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 #aea5a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aea5a2-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?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