Color

#c1aeae

#c1aeae
hex#c1aeae
rgbrgb(193, 174, 174)
hslhsl(0, 13%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.767 0.022 17.6)
Closest name: Dove (#b3ada7)Relative luminance 0.4467

Colors that go with #c1aeae

Charcoal, Champagne 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.

Real palettes that use #c1aeae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aec1c1

#c1aeb8 · #c1b8ae

#aec1ae · #aeaec1

Split-complementary

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#aec1b8 · #aeb8c1

#b8c1ae · #aec1c1 · #b8aec1

Contrast

#c1aeae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8d6d6d as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #6b5252 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.93:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c1aeae 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

#c1aeae reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c1aeae
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 #c1aeae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c1aeae-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md