Oatmeal
Open in tool →Four warm greys from bark to oat — the neutral palette that photographs well and never argues with a product shot.
Color
#e1d1bc
#e1d1bc
hex
#e1d1bcrgb
rgb(225, 209, 188)hsl
hsl(34, 38%, 81%)oklch
oklch(0.868 0.033 74.8)Closest name: Almond Brittle (#e5d3b9)Relative luminance 0.6524
Colors that go with #e1d1bc
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 #e1d1bc: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #e1d1bc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #e1d1bc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #e1d1bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e1d1bc in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #e1d1bc, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #e1d1bc, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e1d1bc: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e1d1bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e1d1bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.05:1 | 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 #e1d1bc 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
#e1d1bc reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e1d1bc
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 #e1d1bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e1d1bc-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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