Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#e2c06e
#e2c06e
hex
#e2c06ergb
rgb(226, 192, 110)hsl
hsl(42, 67%, 66%)oklch
oklch(0.82 0.109 87.5)Closest name: burlywood (#deb887)Relative luminance 0.5499
Colors that go with #e2c06e
Charcoal, Lilac and Cadet 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 body-text near-black for #e2c06e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #e2c06e 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 #e2c06e in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #e2c06e in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #e2c06e in 4 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #e2c06e in 4 real palettes, including Diner and Retro Pop, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #e2c06e in 5 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #e2c06e in 5 real palettes, including Velvet and Golden Hour, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #e2c06e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e2c06e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.75:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12:1 | 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 #e2c06e 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
Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Fonts for this mood
#e2c06e reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e2c06e
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 #e2c06e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e2c06e-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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