Color

#ae8997

#ae8997
hex#ae8997
rgbrgb(174, 137, 151)
hslhsl(337, 19%, 61%)
oklchoklch(0.669 0.049 353.9)
Closest name: rosybrown (#bc8f8f)Relative luminance 0.2912

Colors that go with #ae8997

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #ae8997

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#89aea0

#ae89aa · #ae8d89

#97ae89 · #8997ae

Split-complementary

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#89ae8d · #89aaae

#aaae89 · #89aea0 · #8d89ae

Contrast

#ae8997 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
3.08:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #98677a as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #734e5d as the text (7.05:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (4.6:1)
Aaon black
6.82:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #b18c9a as the text (7.09:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #ae8997 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

#ae8997 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae8997
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 #ae8997 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8997-c49ca7-62cb70-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md