Color

#ae9998

#ae9998
hex#ae9998
rgbrgb(174, 153, 152)
hslhsl(3, 12%, 64%)
oklchoklch(0.701 0.025 21)
Closest name: Coca Mocha (#bd9d95)Relative luminance 0.3405

Colors that go with #ae9998

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 #ae9998

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#98adae

#ae98a2 · #aea498

#98ae99 · #9998ae

Split-complementary

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#98aea4 · #98a2ae

#a2ae98 · #98adae · #a498ae

Contrast

#ae9998 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.69:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #8c6f6e as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #675251 as the text (7.24:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0f0f0f (7.13:1)
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 #ae9998 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

#ae9998 reads as warm, muted, editorial. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9998
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 #ae9998 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9998-c4a39c-62cb9d-2d261f-f1e9ed?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md