Color

#aea89e

#aea89e
hex#aea89e
rgbrgb(174, 168, 158)
hslhsl(37, 9%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.734 0.016 80.7)
Closest name: Cathedral (#acaaa7)Relative luminance 0.3947

Colors that go with #aea89e

Charcoal, Blush Pink 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 #aea89e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ea4ae

#aea09e · #acae9e

#9eaea8 · #a89eae

Split-complementary

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#9eacae · #a09eae

#9eaea0 · #9ea4ae · #ae9eac

Contrast

#aea89e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d7568 as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #5c564d as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.22:1)
Aaon black
8.89:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aea89e 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

#aea89e reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea89e
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 #aea89e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aea89e-c4b99c-62bdcb-2c2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md