Color
#e5aef4
#e5aef4rgb(229, 174, 244)hsl(287, 76%, 82%)oklch(0.824 0.112 318.9)Colors that go with #e5aef4
Charcoal, Midnight Blue and Powder 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 text near-black for #e5aef4: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Lavender Haze and Railway's brand system put Midnight Blue beside #e5aef4, as the text colour against it.
Powder Blue #b0e0e6
shippedDesigners have shipped Powder Blue with #e5aef4: 4 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Macaron, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #e5aef4 in 10 real palettes, including Blossom and Macaron, as the text colour against it.
Lime Green #32cd32
complementaryLime Green sits directly opposite #e5aef4 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Khaki #bdb76b
split-complementshippedDark Khaki is a split-complement of #e5aef4: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #e5aef4 in 3 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
shippedDesigners have shipped Deep Sky Blue with #e5aef4: 3 real palettes, including Calendly's brand system and Max's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #e5aef4
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e5aef4 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.69:1 | 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 #e5aef4 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
#e5aef4 reads as cool, vivid, light. 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 #e5aef4 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/e5aef4-bd9fc1-abcb62-2d1f2a-ece9f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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