Color

#aeae4c

#aeae4c
hex#aeae4c
rgbrgb(174, 174, 76)
hslhsl(60, 39%, 49%)
oklchoklch(0.731 0.121 109.1)
Closest name: Around the Gills (#a1b670)Relative luminance 0.3979

Colors that go with #aeae4c

Charcoal, Lilac 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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#4c4cae

#ae7d4c · #7dae4c

#4caeae · #ae4cae

Split-complementary

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#4c7dae · #7d4cae

#4cae7d · #4c4cae · #ae4c7d

Contrast

#aeae4c as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.34:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #797935 as the text (4.57:1)
  • AAA: use #595927 as the text (7.28:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.63:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.03:1)
Aaon black
8.96:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aeae4c 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 #aeae4c
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 #aeae4c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aeae4c-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md