Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Color
#e4b177
#e4b177
hex
#e4b177rgb
rgb(228, 177, 119)hsl
hsl(32, 67%, 68%)oklch
oklch(0.794 0.095 69.3)Closest name: burlywood (#deb887)Relative luminance 0.4927
Colors that go with #e4b177
Charcoal, Sky Blue 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 #e4b177: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #e4b177 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
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e4b177: 6 real palettes, including Coastal and Open House, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Midnight Luxe and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #e4b177, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #e4b177: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #e4b177: 6 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Gopro's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #e4b177 in 9 real palettes, including Retro Pop and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #e4b177 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e4b177
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e4b177 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.93:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.85:1 | 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 #e4b177 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#e4b177 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e4b177
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 #e4b177 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e4b177-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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