Color

#aea5bb

#aea5bb
hex#aea5bb
rgbrgb(174, 165, 187)
hslhsl(265, 14%, 69%)
oklchoklch(0.737 0.033 304.1)
Closest name: Foggy Plum (#b7a5ad)Relative luminance 0.395

Colors that go with #aea5bb

Charcoal, Blue 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 #aea5bb

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b2bba5

#a5a7bb · #b9a5bb

#bbaea5 · #a5bbae

Split-complementary

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#bbb9a5 · #a7bba5

#bba5a7 · #b2bba5 · #a5bbb9

Contrast

#aea5bb as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.36:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7d6e91 as the text (4.66:1)
  • AAA: use #5f536e as the text (7.12:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.6:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.22:1)
Aaon black
8.9:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aea5bb 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 #aea5bb
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 #aea5bb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aea5bb-b19cc4-dfd54e-2b1f2d-e9eaf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md