Color

#e5a99e

#e5a99e
hex#e5a99e
rgbrgb(229, 169, 158)
hslhsl(9, 58%, 76%)
oklchoklch(0.788 0.073 30.5)
Closest name: Dusty Rose (#dcae96)Relative luminance 0.475

Colors that go with #e5a99e

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.

Real palettes that use #e5a99e

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9edbe5

#e59eb7 · #e5cc9e

#9ee5a9 · #a99ee5

Split-complementary

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#9ee5cc · #9eb7e5

#b7e59e · #9edbe5 · #cc9ee5

Contrast

#e5a99e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #c94c36 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #993a29 as the text (7.02:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #474747 (4.65:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #2b2b2b (7.08:1)
Aaon black
10.5:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e5a99e as the background.

Brands using this color

Fonts for this mood

#e5a99e reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e5a99e
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #e5a99e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e5a99e-c4a79c-62cba8-2d271f-f1e9ec?lock=0&style=vibrant

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