Color

#ae8db9

#ae8db9
hex#ae8db9
rgbrgb(174, 141, 185)
hslhsl(285, 24%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.689 0.073 317.6)
Closest name: Metal Petal (#b090b2)Relative luminance 0.3155

Colors that go with #ae8db9

Charcoal, Medium Sea Green and Denim 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 #ae8db9

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98b98d

#988db9 · #b98dae

#b9ae8d · #8db9ae

Split-complementary

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#aeb98d · #8db998

#b9988d · #98b98d · #8daeb9

Contrast

#ae8db9 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.87:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #9164a0 as the text (4.63:1)
  • AAA: use #6f4c7b as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #303030 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #050505 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
7.31:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae8db9 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 #ae8db9
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 #ae8db9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae8db9-bc9fc1-afcb62-2d1f2b-ebe9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md