Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#aec1bf
#aec1bf
hex
#aec1bfrgb
rgb(174, 193, 191)hsl
hsl(174, 13%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.796 0.021 189.1)Closest name: Irish Moor (#b5c0b3)Relative luminance 0.509
Colors that go with #aec1bf
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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #aec1bf without the hard edge of pure #000.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #aec1bf, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Bramble put Champagne beside #aec1bf, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aec1bf: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #aec1bf in 4 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Frost & Ember, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #aec1bf: 5 real palettes, including Max's brand system and Mistral AI's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #aec1bf: 4 real palettes, including Open House and Fitbit's brand system, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #aec1bf in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #aec1bf
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aec1bf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.88:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.18:1 | 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 #aec1bf 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
#aec1bf reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aec1bf
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 #aec1bf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aec1bf-a2bebe-d459a1-1f292d-e9f1ed?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