Color

#aec6b0

#aec6b0
hex#aec6b0
rgbrgb(174, 198, 176)
hslhsl(125, 17%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.802 0.04 147.5)
Closest name: Gum Leaf (#acc9b2)Relative luminance 0.5252

Colors that go with #aec6b0

Charcoal, Plum 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.

Real palettes that use #aec6b0

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#c6aec4

#b8c6ae · #aec6bc

#b0aec6 · #c6b0ae

Split-complementary

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#bcaec6 · #c6aeb8

#aeb8c6 · #c6aec4 · #c6bcae

Contrast

#aec6b0 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.83:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #597d5c as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #445f46 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.23:1)
Aaon black
11.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aec6b0 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

#aec6b0 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aec6b0
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 #aec6b0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aec6b0-a2bea7-a54edf-1f2d26-ecf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md