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
#deddbfrgb(222, 221, 191)hsl(58, 32%, 81%)oklch(0.89 0.04 105.6)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 is the body-text near-black for #deddbf: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac sits directly opposite #deddbf on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sand is #deddbf's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue completes a triad with #deddbf — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber is paired with #deddbf in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #deddbf, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #deddbf in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #deddbf, as the accent.
| #deddbf as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.38:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.2:1 | 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 #deddbf as the background.
#deddbf reads as warm, muted, 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 #deddbf and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/deddbf-bcbea2-4e99df-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