Color

#ae887a

#ae887a
hex#ae887a
rgbrgb(174, 136, 122)
hslhsl(16, 24%, 58%)
oklchoklch(0.659 0.051 41.2)
Closest name: Bakery Brown (#ab9078)Relative luminance 0.2801

Colors that go with #ae887a

Charcoal, Cadet Blue and Blush Pink 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 #ae887a

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#7aa0ae

#ae7a86 · #aea27a

#7aae88 · #887aae

Split-complementary

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#7aaea2 · #7a86ae

#86ae7a · #7aa0ae · #a27aae

Contrast

#ae887a as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.18:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #956a5b as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #6f4f44 as the text (7.3:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #292929 (4.57:1)
Aaon black
6.6:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b18e81 as the text (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 #ae887a 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

#ae887a reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae887a
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 #ae887a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae887a-c4ab9c-62cbb4-2d291f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md