Color
#ae87c5
#ae87c5rgb(174, 135, 197)hsl(278, 35%, 65%)oklch(0.682 0.099 312.5)Colors that go with #ae87c5
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 #ae87c5: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Medium Sea Green #3cb371
complementaryshippedMedium Sea Green sits directly opposite #ae87c5 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 #ae87c5 in 4 real palettes, including Obsidian's brand system and Ledger Dark, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #ae87c5, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ae87c5: 4 real palettes, including First Snow and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #ae87c5 in 7 real palettes, including Dusk and Obsidian's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ae87c5 in 3 real palettes, including Ahrefs's brand system and Blueprint, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ae87c5: 3 real palettes, including Dusk and Riverbed, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ae87c5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae87c5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.07:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ae87c5 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
#ae87c5 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 #ae87c5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ae87c5-ba9cc4-bbcb62-2d1f2c-ebe9f1?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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