Color

#ae98a1

#ae98a1
hex#ae98a1
rgbrgb(174, 152, 161)
hslhsl(335, 12%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.702 0.029 351.2)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3403

Colors that go with #ae98a1

Charcoal, Burlywood and Champagne 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 #ae98a1

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98aea5

#ae98ac · #ae9a98

#a1ae98 · #98a1ae

Split-complementary

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#98ae9a · #98acae

#acae98 · #98aea5 · #9a98ae

Contrast

#ae98a1 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c6e7a as the text (4.54:1)
  • AAA: use #67515a as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
7.81:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae98a1 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

#ae98a1 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae98a1
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 #ae98a1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae98a1-c49ca8-62cb6d-2d201f-f1e9f0?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md