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
#e5cdc2
#e5cdc2
hex
#e5cdc2rgb
rgb(229, 205, 194)hsl
hsl(19, 40%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.865 0.031 46.2)Closest name: China Silk (#e3d1cc)Relative luminance 0.6422
Colors that go with #e5cdc2
Charcoal, Lilac and Sand 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 #e5cdc2: 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 #e5cdc2: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #e5cdc2's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #e5cdc2 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e5cdc2 in 5 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Uber's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #e5cdc2, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #e5cdc2, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e5cdc2: 6 real palettes, including Estate and Clean Beauty, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e5cdc2
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e5cdc2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.52:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 13.84:1 | 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 #e5cdc2 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#e5cdc2 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e5cdc2
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 #e5cdc2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e5cdc2-c4ad9c-62cbb9-2d2a1f-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