Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#e6e9dc
#e6e9dc
hex
#e6e9dcrgb
rgb(230, 233, 220)hsl
hsl(74, 23%, 89%)oklch
oklch(0.928 0.018 117.3)Closest name: Homoeopathic Mint (#e5ead8)Relative luminance 0.8027
Colors that go with #e6e9dc
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 #e6e9dc without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e6e9dc in 21 real palettes, including Trailhead and Blueprint, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #e6e9dc, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #e6e9dc in 12 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 #e6e9dc, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #e6e9dc, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #e6e9dc, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #e6e9dc in 8 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #e6e9dc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e6e9dc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.23:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.05:1 | 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 #e6e9dc as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Forest Floor
Open in tool →Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.
Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
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.
Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Fonts for this mood
#e6e9dc reads as muted, light, minimal. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e6e9dc
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 #e6e9dc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e6e9dc-b4bea2-4e72df-242d1f-f1efe9?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