Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#dcd9b2
#dcd9b2
hex
#dcd9b2rgb
rgb(220, 217, 178)hsl
hsl(56, 38%, 78%)oklch
oklch(0.878 0.052 103.8)Closest name: April Showers (#dadeb5)Relative luminance 0.6806
Colors that go with #dcd9b2
Charcoal, Lilac and Sand 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 #dcd9b2: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #dcd9b2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #dcd9b2's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #dcd9b2: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #dcd9b2 in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Bumble's brand system and Uber's brand system put Blue beside #dcd9b2, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #dcd9b2, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #dcd9b2: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #dcd9b2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #dcd9b2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.44:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.61:1 | 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 #dcd9b2 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
Fonts for this mood
#dcd9b2 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #dcd9b2
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 #dcd9b2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/dcd9b2-bdbea2-4e9edf-282d1f-f1ede9?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