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
#e2d2b1
#e2d2b1
hex
#e2d2b1rgb
rgb(226, 210, 177)hsl
hsl(40, 46%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.868 0.047 85.2)Closest name: Banana Frappé (#ddd5b6)Relative luminance 0.6544
Colors that go with #e2d2b1
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky 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 #e2d2b1: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #e2d2b1 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #e2d2b1: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e2d2b1 in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Bumble's brand system put Blue beside #e2d2b1, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #e2d2b1, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e2d2b1: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #e2d2b1: 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e2d2b1
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e2d2b1 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.49:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.09:1 | 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 #e2d2b1 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
#e2d2b1 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e2d2b1
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 #e2d2b1 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e2d2b1-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-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