Color

#aea7ad

#aea7ad
hex#aea7ad
rgbrgb(174, 167, 173)
hslhsl(309, 4%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.736 0.012 330.2)
Closest name: darkgray (#a9a9a9)Relative luminance 0.3965

Colors that go with #aea7ad

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #aea7ad

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a7aea8

#aca7ae · #aea7aa

#adaea7 · #a7adae

Split-complementary

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#aaaea7 · #a7aeac

#aeaca7 · #a7aea8 · #a7aaae

Contrast

#aea7ad as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.35:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d737b as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #5d565c as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aea7ad 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

#aea7ad reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea7ad
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 #aea7ad and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aea7ad-a2beb0-c859d4-1f2d2b-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md