Color

#c2aeae

#c2aeae
hex#c2aeae
rgbrgb(194, 174, 174)
hslhsl(0, 14%, 72%)
oklchoklch(0.768 0.023 17.7)
Closest name: Dove (#b3ada7)Relative luminance 0.448

Colors that go with #c2aeae

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 #c2aeae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aec2c2

#c2aeb8 · #c2b8ae

#aec2ae · #aeaec2

Split-complementary

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#aec2b8 · #aeb8c2

#b8c2ae · #aec2c2 · #b8aec2

Contrast

#c2aeae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.11:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #916e6e as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #6c5151 as the text (7.16:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.18:1)
Aaon black
9.96:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c2aeae 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

#c2aeae reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c2aeae
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 #c2aeae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c2aeae-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md