Color

#c7aeae

#c7aeae
hex#c7aeae
rgbrgb(199, 174, 174)
hslhsl(0, 18%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.772 0.029 17.8)
Closest name: Borlotti Bean (#d9b1aa)Relative luminance 0.4547

Colors that go with #c7aeae

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 #c7aeae

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#aec7c7

#c7aeba · #c7baae

#aec7ae · #aeaec7

Split-complementary

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#aec7ba · #aebac7

#bac7ae · #aec7c7 · #baaec7

Contrast

#c7aeae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.08:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #966969 as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #724f4f as the text (7.13:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #454545 (4.61:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #262626 (7.27:1)
Aaon black
10.09:1passpasspassPasses 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 #c7aeae 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

#c7aeae reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #c7aeae
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 #c7aeae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/c7aeae-c4a19c-62cb98-2d251f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md