Color

#aec497

#aec497
hex#aec497
rgbrgb(174, 196, 151)
hslhsl(89, 28%, 68%)
oklchoklch(0.792 0.066 129)
Closest name: Beige and Sage (#bbc199)Relative luminance 0.5071

Colors that go with #aec497

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.

Real palettes that use #aec497

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#ad97c4

#c4c397 · #97c497

#97aec4 · #c497ae

Split-complementary

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#9797c4 · #c397c4

#97c4c3 · #ad97c4 · #c49797

Contrast

#aec497 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #627c46 as the text (4.68:1)
  • AAA: use #4b5f35 as the text (7.03:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4a4a4a (4.7:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7:1)
Aaon black
11.14:1passpasspassPasses 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 #aec497 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #aec497
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 #aec497 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/aec497-adbea2-4e4edf-212d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md