Color

#aec1ba

#aec1ba
hex#aec1ba
rgbrgb(174, 193, 186)
hslhsl(158, 13%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.794 0.023 171.6)
Closest name: Irish Moor (#b5c0b3)Relative luminance 0.5068

Colors that go with #aec1ba

Charcoal, Blue 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c1aeb5

#aec1b1 · #aebec1

#baaec1 · #c1baae

Split-complementary

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#c1aebe · #c1b1ae

#b1aec1 · #c1aeb5 · #bec1ae

Contrast

#aec1ba as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.89:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #5f7c71 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #475c54 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2e2e2e (7.2:1)
Aaon black
11.14:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aec1ba 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

#aec1ba reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aec1ba
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 #aec1ba and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aec1ba-a2beb7-d459c2-1f2c2d-e9f1eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md