Color

#ae96e4

#ae96e4
hex#ae96e4
rgbrgb(174, 150, 228)
hslhsl(258, 59%, 74%)
oklchoklch(0.724 0.114 297.6)
Closest name: Dreamy Candy Forest (#b195e4)Relative luminance 0.3641

Colors that go with #ae96e4

Dark Khaki, Amber and Deep Sky 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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#cce496

#96a5e4 · #d496e4

#e4ad96 · #96e4ad

Split-complementary

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#e4d496 · #a5e496

#e496a5 · #cce496 · #96e4d4

Contrast

#ae96e4 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8461d6 as the text (4.5:1)
  • AAA: use #6538cc as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.62:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.07:1)
Aaon black
8.28:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae96e4 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

#ae96e4 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae96e4
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 #ae96e4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae96e4-ad9cc4-dfc44e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md