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
#aec7c3
#aec7c3
hex
#aec7c3rgb
rgb(174, 199, 195)hsl
hsl(170, 18%, 73%)oklch
oklch(0.81 0.028 185)Closest name: Misty Morning (#b2c8bd)Relative luminance 0.5379
Colors that go with #aec7c3
Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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 #aec7c3 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aec7c3: 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Desert Road, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #aec7c3 in 4 real palettes, including Frost & Ember and Cartier's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #aec7c3: 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 #aec7c3: 5 real palettes, including Nikon's brand system and Fitbit's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped9 real palettes, including First Snow and Lavender Milk put Midnight Blue beside #aec7c3, as the text colour against it.
Peru #cd853f
shipped4 real palettes, including Estate and Kiln put Peru beside #aec7c3, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped11 real palettes, including Still Water and Graphite Mono put Slate Gray beside #aec7c3, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #aec7c3
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aec7c3 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.79:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.76:1 | 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 #aec7c3 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
#aec7c3 reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #aec7c3
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 #aec7c3 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aec7c3-a2bebd-d459a9-1f292d-e9f1ec?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