Color

#aea5a3

#aea5a3
hex#aea5a3
rgbrgb(174, 165, 163)
hslhsl(11, 6%, 66%)
oklchoklch(0.729 0.011 32.5)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3855

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a3acae

#aea3a6 · #aeaaa3

#a3aea5 · #a5a3ae

Split-complementary

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#a3aeaa · #a3a6ae

#a6aea3 · #a3acae · #aaa3ae

Contrast

#aea5a3 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.41:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7f7371 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #5f5654 as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.71:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aea5a3 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#aea5a3 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea5a3
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #aea5a3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aea5a3-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md