Rain Garden
Open in tool →Wet-leaf teal and moss with a soft peach — an overcast spring, calmer than the bright version and better for long reading.
Color
#aec997
#aec997
hex
#aec997rgb
rgb(174, 201, 151)hsl
hsl(92, 32%, 69%)oklch
oklch(0.803 0.074 131)Closest name: Greenhorn (#b2cc9a)Relative luminance 0.5301
Colors that go with #aec997
Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #aec997: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #aec997 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #aec997: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Estate, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #aec997, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #aec997: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #aec997 in 5 real palettes, including Tiffany & Co.'s brand system and Cartier's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #aec997 in 4 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Olive Grove, as the lead colour.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant shows up next to #aec997 in 4 real palettes, including Sepia Mono and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #aec997
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aec997 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.81:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.6:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes 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 #aec997 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 #aec997
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #aec997 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/aec997-acbea2-564edf-202d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md