Color

#aeb2cb

#aeb2cb
hex#aeb2cb
rgbrgb(174, 178, 203)
hslhsl(232, 22%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.036 278.3)
Closest name: Ethereal Mist (#b0b8cc)Relative luminance 0.4515

Colors that go with #aeb2cb

Charcoal, Sand 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cbc7ae

#aec1cb · #b9aecb

#cbaeb2 · #b2cbae

Split-complementary

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#cbb9ae · #c1cbae

#cbaec1 · #cbc7ae · #aecbb9

Contrast

#aeb2cb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.09:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #6a71a0 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #50567c as the text (7.09:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
10.03:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aeb2cb 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

#aeb2cb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aeb2cb
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 #aeb2cb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aeb2cb-9c9dc4-df864e-231f2d-e9eef1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md