Color

#ae9bbb

#ae9bbb
hex#ae9bbb
rgbrgb(174, 155, 187)
hslhsl(276, 19%, 67%)
oklchoklch(0.717 0.05 311.6)
Closest name: Dripping Wisteria (#bb99bb)Relative luminance 0.3603

Colors that go with #ae9bbb

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#a8bb9b

#9e9bbb · #bb9bb8

#bbae9b · #9bbbae

Split-complementary

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#b8bb9b · #9bbb9e

#bb9e9b · #a8bb9b · #9bb8bb

Contrast

#ae9bbb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.56:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #876a9a as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #654e73 as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.58:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
8.21:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae9bbb as the background.

Brands using this color

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

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9bbb
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 #ae9bbb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9bbb-b99cc4-bfcb62-2d1f2d-eae9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md