Color

#ae8adb

#ae8adb
hex#ae8adb
rgbrgb(174, 138, 219)
hslhsl(267, 53%, 70%)
oklchoklch(0.698 0.121 303.9)
Closest name: Dreamy Candy Forest (#b195e4)Relative luminance 0.3229

Colors that go with #ae8adb

Charcoal, Amber and Midnight 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b7db8a

#8a8edb · #d78adb

#dbae8a · #8adbae

Split-complementary

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#dbd78a · #8edb8a

#db8a8e · #b7db8a · #8adbd7

Contrast

#ae8adb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.82:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8e5bcd as the text (4.64:1)
  • AAA: use #7138b7 as the text (7.11:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.46:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae8adb 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

#ae8adb reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae8adb
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 #ae8adb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8adb-b39cc4-dfda4e-2c1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md