Color

#ae96c5

#ae96c5
hex#ae96c5
rgbrgb(174, 150, 197)
hslhsl(271, 29%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.711 0.072 307.8)
Closest name: Enchanted Lilac (#a893c1)Relative luminance 0.3484

Colors that go with #ae96c5

Charcoal, Copper 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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#adc596

#9796c5 · #c596c4

#c5ae96 · #96c5ae

Split-complementary

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#c4c596 · #96c597

#c59796 · #adc596 · #96c4c5

Contrast

#ae96c5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.64:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8864aa as the text (4.72:1)
  • AAA: use #6a4a87 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.59:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.11:1)
Aaon black
7.97:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae96c5 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 #ae96c5
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 #ae96c5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae96c5-b59cc4-c7cb62-2c1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md