Color
#aed996
#aed996rgb(174, 217, 150)hsl(99, 47%, 72%)oklch(0.838 0.101 134.7)Colors that go with #aed996
Charcoal, Sky Blue 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #aed996: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #aed996 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #aed996 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
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #aed996 in 4 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Peru #cd853f
shippedPeru is paired with #aed996 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedSage Green is paired with #aed996 in 6 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #aed996 in 10 real palettes, including Kiln and Still Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #aed996 in 24 real palettes, including Blossom and Rain Garden, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #aed996
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #aed996 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.6:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.17:1 | 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 #aed996 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
#aed996 reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #aed996 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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