Color

#aea5c5

#aea5c5
hex#aea5c5
rgbrgb(174, 165, 197)
hslhsl(257, 22%, 71%)
oklchoklch(0.74 0.047 298.1)
Closest name: Lucius Lilac (#baa2ce)Relative luminance 0.3994

Colors that go with #aea5c5

Charcoal, Dark Khaki and Blue 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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#bcc5a5

#a5acc5 · #bea5c5

#c5aea5 · #a5c5ae

Split-complementary

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#c5bea5 · #acc5a5

#c5a5ac · #bcc5a5 · #a5c5be

Contrast

#aea5c5 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #7c6da2 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #5c507c as the text (7.26:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.05:1)
Aaon black
8.99:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aea5c5 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

#aea5c5 reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea5c5
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 #aea5c5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aea5c5-ac9cc4-dfc24e-291f2d-e9ebf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md