Pine & Birch
Open in tool →One deep pine on birch-white with sage and bark greys — Scandinavian forest: mostly light, one committed green.
Color
#e2d8d5
#e2d8d5
hex
#e2d8d5rgb
rgb(226, 216, 213)hsl
hsl(14, 18%, 86%)oklch
oklch(0.889 0.012 37.4)Closest name: gainsboro (#dcdcdc)Relative luminance 0.7008
Colors that go with #e2d8d5
Charcoal, Amber and 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #e2d8d5 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e2d8d5 in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #e2d8d5, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #e2d8d5 in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #e2d8d5, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #e2d8d5, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #e2d8d5 in 7 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e2d8d5: 10 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e2d8d5
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e2d8d5 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.4:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.02:1 | 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 #e2d8d5 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Ink Wash
Open in tool →Greys on near-black — the monochrome dark mode; keep everything a tint of white and the layout does the talking.
Fonts for this mood
#e2d8d5 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e2d8d5
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 #e2d8d5 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e2d8d5-c4aa9c-62cbb1-2d291f-f1e9eb?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