Color

#aeab89

#aeab89
hex#aeab89
rgbrgb(174, 171, 137)
hslhsl(55, 19%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.047 103.3)
Closest name: Bamboo Forest (#b1a979)Relative luminance 0.3993

Colors that go with #aeab89

Charcoal, Lilac and Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#898cae

#ae9889 · #9fae89

#89aeab · #ab89ae

Split-complementary

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#899fae · #9889ae

#89ae98 · #898cae · #ae899f

Contrast

#aeab89 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797653 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #5b593e as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aeab89 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

#aeab89 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aeab89
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 #aeab89 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aeab89-bdbea2-4ea0df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md