Color
#ae9eac
#ae9eacrgb(174, 158, 172)hsl(308, 9%, 65%)oklch(0.717 0.027 329.9)Colors that go with #ae9eac
Charcoal, Copper and Crimson 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the text near-black that reads cleanly against #ae9eac without the hard edge of pure #000.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #ae9eac: 7 real palettes, including Riverbed and Dusk, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #ae9eac in 4 real palettes, including Casper Sleep's brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the lead colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #ae9eac: 5 real palettes, including Open House and Dusk, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #ae9eac in 4 real palettes, including Darkroom and Canopy, as the accent.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Open House and First Snow put Midnight Blue beside #ae9eac, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #ae9eac: 6 real palettes, including Stone and Crypto.com's brand system, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped8 real palettes, including Graphite and Riverbed put Slate Gray beside #ae9eac, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ae9eac
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ae9eac as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.53:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.29:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #ae9eac 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
#ae9eac reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ae9eac and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ae9eac-c19fb8-87cb62-2d1f25-eee9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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