Terminal
Open in tool →Green for success, blue for links, pink for emphasis — the dark-mode developer family, tuned to sit on near-black without glare.
Color
#e6e8ea
#e6e8ea
hex
#e6e8eargb
rgb(230, 232, 234)hsl
hsl(210, 9%, 91%)oklch
oklch(0.93 0.003 247.9)Closest name: Distant Cloud (#e5eae6)Relative luminance 0.8048
Colors that go with #e6e8ea
Charcoal, Amber and 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #e6e8ea without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e6e8ea in 17 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped39 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #e6e8ea, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #e6e8ea in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #e6e8ea, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Velvet and Woodsmoke put Brown beside #e6e8ea, as the lead colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #e6e8ea, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #e6e8ea in 7 real palettes, including Velvet and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #e6e8ea
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e6e8ea as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.23:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.1:1 | 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 #e6e8ea 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
Blueprint
Open in tool →Cyan and indigo on navy is the developer-tool look; amber is the only warm note, so it always reads as 'attention'.
Ledger Dark
Open in tool →Gold on midnight is the private-banking cue; the mint accent keeps it from feeling old-money stuffy.
Forest Floor
Open in tool →Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.
Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Ink Wash
Open in tool →Greys on near-black — the monochrome dark mode; keep everything a tint of white and the layout does the talking.
Fonts for this mood
#e6e8ea reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e6e8ea
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 #e6e8ea and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e6e8ea-9cabc4-df514e-1f202d-e9f1f1?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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