Color
#ae85b7
#ae85b7rgb(174, 133, 183)hsl(289, 26%, 62%)oklch(0.673 0.086 320.2)Colors that go with #ae85b7
Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Emerald Green 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 text near-black for #ae85b7: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #ae85b7 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Emerald Green #50c878
shippedEmerald Green is paired with #ae85b7 in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Obsidian's brand system, as the accent.
Peru #cd853f
triadicshippedPeru completes a triad with #ae85b7 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ae85b7: 4 real palettes, including Ink Wash and Crypto.com's brand system, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #ae85b7 in 11 real palettes, including Dusk and Stone, as the text colour against it.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ae85b7: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Atelier, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae85b7: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Open House, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #ae85b7
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae85b7 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.07:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.84:1 | 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 #ae85b7 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #ae85b7 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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