Color

#ae8ced

#ae8ced
hex#ae8ced
rgbrgb(174, 140, 237)
hslhsl(261, 73%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.71 0.141 298.9)
Closest name: Dreamy Candy Forest (#b195e4)Relative luminance 0.3387

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#cbed8c

#8c9bed · #df8ced

#edae8c · #8cedae

Split-complementary

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#eddf8c · #9bed8c

#ed8c9b · #cbed8c · #8ceddf

Contrast

#ae8ced as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.7:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8957e5 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #6727dd as the text (7.21:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.68:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.1:1)
Aaon black
7.77:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae8ced 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

#ae8ced reads as cool, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae8ced
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 #ae8ced and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8ced-af9cc4-dfcb4e-2a1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md