Color

#aeae6b

#aeae6b
hex#aeae6b
rgbrgb(174, 174, 107)
hslhsl(60, 29%, 55%)
oklchoklch(0.735 0.088 108.4)
Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.4033

Colors that go with #aeae6b

Charcoal, Emerald Green and Lilac 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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#6b6bae

#ae8c6b · #8cae6b

#6baeae · #ae6bae

Split-complementary

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#6b8cae · #8c6bae

#6bae8c · #6b6bae · #ae6b8c

Contrast

#aeae6b as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.32:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #767641 as the text (4.73:1)
  • AAA: use #595931 as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.69:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1f1f1f (7.12:1)
Aaon black
9.07:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aeae6b 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 #aeae6b
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 #aeae6b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aeae6b-bbbea2-4e94df-272d1f-f1ede9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md