Color

#ae9eae

#ae9eae
hex#ae9eae
rgbrgb(174, 158, 174)
hslhsl(300, 9%, 65%)
oklchoklch(0.718 0.029 325.9)
Closest name: Classy Mauve (#bb99aa)Relative luminance 0.3651

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9eae9e

#a69eae · #ae9ea6

#aeae9e · #9eaeae

Split-complementary

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#a6ae9e · #9eaea6

#aea69e · #9eae9e · #9ea6ae

Contrast

#ae9eae as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.53:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #856f85 as the text (4.56:1)
  • AAA: use #645464 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #383838 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #171717 (7.09:1)
Aaon black
8.3:1passpasspassPasses 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 #ae9eae 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

#ae9eae reads as muted, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #ae9eae
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #ae9eae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/ae9eae-c19fbd-95cb62-2d1f27-ede9f1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md