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
#e4cec8
#e4cec8
hex
#e4cec8rgb
rgb(228, 206, 200)hsl
hsl(13, 34%, 84%)oklch
oklch(0.868 0.026 35.7)Closest name: China Silk (#e3d1cc)Relative luminance 0.6481
Colors that go with #e4cec8
Charcoal, Amber and Brown 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 #e4cec8 without the hard edge of pure #000.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #e4cec8 in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #e4cec8 in 6 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #e4cec8 in 9 real palettes, including Bramble and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #e4cec8 in 7 real palettes, including Oatmeal and Forest Floor, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Eggplant #614051
shippedEggplant is paired with #e4cec8 in 5 real palettes, including Blush and Sepia Mono, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #e4cec8
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e4cec8 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.5:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.96:1 | 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 #e4cec8 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
#e4cec8 reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e4cec8
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 #e4cec8 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e4cec8-c4a99c-62cbaf-2d281f-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