Color

#ae8cb5

#ae8cb5
hex#ae8cb5
rgbrgb(174, 140, 181)
hslhsl(290, 22%, 63%)
oklchoklch(0.685 0.07 320.5)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.3109

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#93b58c

#9a8cb5 · #b58ca8

#b5ae8c · #8cb5ae

Split-complementary

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#a8b58c · #8cb59a

#b59a8c · #93b58c · #8ca8b5

Contrast

#ae8cb5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.91:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #92639c as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #6f4c76 as the text (7.07:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.54:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
7.22:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae8cb5 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae8cb5
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ae8cb5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8cb5-bf9fc1-a6cb62-2d1f29-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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