Color

#aea6ce

#aea6ce
hex#aea6ce
rgbrgb(174, 166, 206)
hslhsl(252, 29%, 73%)
oklchoklch(0.745 0.058 294.1)
Closest name: Lucius Lilac (#baa2ce)Relative luminance 0.4073

Colors that go with #aea6ce

Charcoal, Dark Khaki and Copper 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

Open in tool →

#c6cea6

#a6b2ce · #c2a6ce

#ceaea6 · #a6ceae

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#cec2a6 · #b2cea6

#cea6b2 · #c6cea6 · #a6cec2

Contrast

#aea6ce as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.3:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #786bae as the text (4.65:1)
  • AAA: use #5b4e8d as the text (7.19:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #404040 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #212121 (7.01:1)
Aaon black
9.15:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aea6ce 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

#aea6ce reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aea6ce
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 #aea6ce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aea6ce-a99cc4-dfb64e-281f2d-e9ecf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

Want the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.

Machine-readable: color.md