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
#aec2c0
#aec2c0
hex
#aec2c0rgb
rgb(174, 194, 192)hsl
hsl(174, 14%, 72%)oklch
oklch(0.798 0.022 189.4)Closest name: Irish Moor (#b5c0b3)Relative luminance 0.5139
Colors that go with #aec2c0
Charcoal, Blue 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 #aec2c0 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 #aec2c0, as the accent.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aec2c0: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #aec2c0 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 #aec2c0: 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 #aec2c0: 4 real palettes, including Fitbit's brand system and Open House, as the supporting colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #aec2c0 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Blush, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped8 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #aec2c0, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #aec2c0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aec2c0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.86:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.28:1 | 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 #aec2c0 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
#aec2c0 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aec2c0
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 #aec2c0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aec2c0-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