Color
#ae8488
#ae8488rgb(174, 132, 136)hsl(354, 21%, 60%)oklch(0.655 0.052 12.2)Colors that go with #ae8488
Charcoal, Peru and Cadet 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ae8488: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Peru #cd853f
analogousshippedPeru is #ae8488's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
complementaryshippedCadet Blue sits directly opposite #ae8488 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped5 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Blush put Blush Pink beside #ae8488, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Darkroom put Champagne beside #ae8488, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #ae8488 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Clay & Linen, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae8488: 4 real palettes, including Dusk and Guinness's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #ae8488: 4 real palettes, including Studio Grey and Spline's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ae8488
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae8488 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.46:1 | 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 #ae8488 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
#ae8488 reads as warm, muted, editorial. 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 #ae8488 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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