Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#e5dcbd
#e5dcbd
hex
#e5dcbdrgb
rgb(229, 220, 189)hsl
hsl(47, 43%, 82%)oklch
oklch(0.894 0.042 93.7)Closest name: Airy Fields (#dbe0c4)Relative luminance 0.7152
Colors that go with #e5dcbd
Charcoal, Lilac and Plum 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 #e5dcbd: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #e5dcbd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #e5dcbd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #e5dcbd's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #e5dcbd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e5dcbd in 21 real palettes, including Ember and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #e5dcbd, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #e5dcbd in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e5dcbd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e5dcbd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.37:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 15.3:1 | 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 #e5dcbd as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#e5dcbd reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e5dcbd
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 #e5dcbd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e5dcbd-c4c09c-62abcb-2a2d1f-f1ece9?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