Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Color
#e5c166
#e5c166
hex
#e5c166rgb
rgb(229, 193, 102)hsl
hsl(43, 71%, 65%)oklch
oklch(0.824 0.118 88.1)Closest name: Ancient Treasure (#e7d082)Relative luminance 0.5576
Colors that go with #e5c166
Charcoal, Deep Sky Blue and Lilac 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.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
split-complementshippedDeep Sky Blue is a split-complement of #e5c166: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #e5c166 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #e5c166 in 4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and League of Legends's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #e5c166 in 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Diner, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #e5c166 in 4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedCornflower Blue is paired with #e5c166 in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ahrefs's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #e5c166 in 7 real palettes, including Diner and Tabloid, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #e5c166
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e5c166 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.73:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.15:1 | 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 #e5c166 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
Coastal
Open in tool →Sea-teal, sky and sand — bright without shouting; works for travel, wellness, and anything near water.
Polaroid
Open in tool →Washed coral, faded aqua and a mustard — the 1970s film look, desaturated so it feels found rather than designed.
Fonts for this mood
#e5c166 reads as warm, vivid, playful. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e5c166
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 #e5c166 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e5c166-c4bd9c-62b2cb-2b2d1f-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