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
#aea8a2
#aea8a2
hex
#aea8a2rgb
rgb(174, 168, 162)hsl
hsl(30, 7%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.735 0.011 67.7)Closest name: Cathedral (#acaaa7)Relative luminance 0.3961
Colors that go with #aea8a2
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #aea8a2 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Bramble and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #aea8a2, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aea8a2: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #aea8a2 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aea8a2: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #aea8a2 in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Desert Road, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #aea8a2, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #aea8a2: 5 real palettes, including Stone and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aea8a2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.35:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.92:1 | 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 #aea8a2 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
#aea8a2 reads as neutral, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea8a2
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 #aea8a2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aea8a2-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