Color

#ae0956

#ae0956
hex#ae0956
rgbrgb(174, 9, 86)
hslhsl(332, 90%, 36%)
oklchoklch(0.487 0.192 2.6)
Closest name: Fancy Red Wine (#b40441)Relative luminance 0.0987

Colors that go with #ae0956

Teal, Crimson and Denim 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 #ae0956

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#09ae61

#ae09a9 · #ae0f09

#56ae09 · #0956ae

Split-complementary

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#09ae0f · #09a9ae

#a9ae09 · #09ae61 · #0f09ae

Contrast

#ae0956 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
7.06:1passpasspassPasses AAA — no fix needed.
Aaon black
2.97:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #e40c71 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #f75fa6 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #cfcfcf (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #ffffff (7.06:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae0956 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

#ae0956 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae0956
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 #ae0956 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae0956-c49caa-62cb67-2d1f20-f1e9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md