Color

#e5cd99

#e5cd99
hex#e5cd99
rgbrgb(229, 205, 153)
hslhsl(41, 59%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.856 0.073 86)
Closest name: Ancestral Gold (#ddcda6)Relative luminance 0.6262

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#9ab1e5

#e5a79a · #d7e59a

#9ae5cd · #cd9ae5

Split-complementary

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#9ad7e5 · #a79ae5

#9ae5a7 · #9ab1e5 · #e59ad7

Contrast

#e5cd99 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.55:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #927026 as the text (4.6:1)
  • AAA: use #6d541c as the text (7.15:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #595959 (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3b3b3b (7.21:1)
Aaon black
13.52:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e5cd99 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#e5cd99 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e5cd99
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #e5cd99 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e5cd99-c4bc9c-62b6cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md