Color

#afae8e

#afae8e
hex#afae8e
rgbrgb(175, 174, 142)
hslhsl(58, 17%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.743 0.044 105.9)
Closest name: Gargoyle (#abb39e)Relative luminance 0.4134

Colors that go with #afae8e

Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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 #afae8e

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8e8faf

#af9d8e · #9faf8e

#8eafad · #ad8eaf

Split-complementary

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#8e9faf · #9d8eaf

#8eaf9d · #8e8faf · #af8e9f

Contrast

#afae8e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.27:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #777655 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #5a593f as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
9.27:1passpasspassPasses 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 #afae8e 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

#afae8e reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #afae8e
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 #afae8e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/afae8e-bcbea2-4e99df-282d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md