Color
#ae80d6
#ae80d6rgb(174, 128, 214)hsl(272, 51%, 67%)oklch(0.678 0.132 307.8)Colors that go with #ae80d6
Medium Sea Green, Amber and Blue 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.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #ae80d6 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ae80d6 in 3 real palettes, including Blueprint and Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social's brand system, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Canva's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #ae80d6, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black for #ae80d6: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ae80d6 in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Supabase's brand system, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped3 real palettes, including Plaid's brand system and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #ae80d6, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #ae80d6 in 3 real palettes, including Sephora's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #ae80d6 in 3 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Loom's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae80d6 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.06:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.86:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae80d6 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
#ae80d6 reads as cool, modern. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ae80d6 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ae80d6-b69cc4-c5cb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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