Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
Color
#e5c8ae
#e5c8ae
hex
#e5c8aergb
rgb(229, 200, 174)hsl
hsl(28, 51%, 79%)oklch
oklch(0.851 0.048 64)Closest name: Ancestral Gold (#ddcda6)Relative luminance 0.6102
Colors that go with #e5c8ae
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky 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 #e5c8ae: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #e5c8ae: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #e5c8ae on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #e5c8ae, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e5c8ae: 5 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #e5c8ae: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Clean Beauty, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #e5c8ae: 5 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and Blueprint, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #e5c8ae in 6 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e5c8ae as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.59:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.2:1 | 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 #e5c8ae 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
#e5c8ae reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e5c8ae
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 #e5c8ae and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e5c8ae-c4b39c-62cbc9-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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