Color

#ae998f

#ae998f
hex#ae998f
rgbrgb(174, 153, 143)
hslhsl(19, 16%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.699 0.029 47.1)
Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3376

Colors that go with #ae998f

Charcoal, Blush Pink and Burlywood 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 #ae998f

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#8fa4ae

#ae8f94 · #aea88f

#8fae98 · #988fae

Split-complementary

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#8faea8 · #8f94ae

#94ae8f · #8fa4ae · #a88fae

Contrast

#ae998f as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.71:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8b7165 as the text (4.52:1)
  • AAA: use #68544b as the text (7.1:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.66:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.75:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae998f as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

Fonts for this mood

#ae998f reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae998f
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 #ae998f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae998f-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md