Color

#ae98ab

#ae98ab
hex#ae98ab
rgbrgb(174, 152, 171)
hslhsl(308, 12%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.705 0.037 330.4)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.344

Colors that go with #ae98ab

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.

Real palettes that use #ae98ab

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98ae9b

#a698ae · #ae98a0

#abae98 · #98abae

Split-complementary

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#a0ae98 · #98aea6

#aea698 · #98ae9b · #98a0ae

Contrast

#ae98ab as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.67:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #896c85 as the text (4.62:1)
  • AAA: use #675164 as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #363636 (4.53:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #121212 (7.03:1)
Aaon black
7.88:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae98ab 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

#ae98ab reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae98ab
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 #ae98ab and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae98ab-c19fb8-87cb62-2d1f25-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md