Color

#aeacd8

#aeacd8
hex#aeacd8
rgbrgb(174, 172, 216)
hslhsl(243, 36%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.761 0.063 286.9)
Closest name: Pastel Lilac (#bdb0d0)Relative luminance 0.4346

Colors that go with #aeacd8

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

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#d6d8ac

#acc0d8 · #c4acd8

#d8aeac · #acd8ae

Split-complementary

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#d8c4ac · #c0d8ac

#d8acc0 · #d6d8ac · #acd8c4

Contrast

#aeacd8 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.17:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #716dba as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #514da3 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #424242 (4.64:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #242424 (7.16:1)
Aaon black
9.69:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aeacd8 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

#aeacd8 reads as cool, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aeacd8
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 #aeacd8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aeacd8-a39cc4-dfa04e-261f2d-e9edf1?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md