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
#e6ebeb
#e6ebeb
hex
#e6ebebrgb
rgb(230, 235, 235)hsl
hsl(180, 11%, 91%)oklch
oklch(0.936 0.005 197.1)Closest name: Distant Cloud (#e5eae6)Relative luminance 0.8224
Colors that go with #e6ebeb
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 #e6ebeb without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e6ebeb in 21 real palettes, including Blueprint and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #e6ebeb, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #e6ebeb 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 #e6ebeb, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Velvet and Typewriter put Brown beside #e6ebeb, as the lead colour.
Burgundy #800020
shipped5 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #e6ebeb, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #e6ebeb in 8 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Kiln, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #e6ebeb
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e6ebeb as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.2:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.45:1 | 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 #e6ebeb 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.
Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
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.
Dusk
Open in tool →Slate blue with a copper accent — calm, professional, slightly editorial; suits consultancies and journals.
Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Fireside
Open in tool →Cranberry, pine and brass on a charcoal night — the holiday palette without the clichés, because the surface is cold.
Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
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
#e6ebeb reads as cool, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e6ebeb
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 #e6ebeb and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e6ebeb-a2bbbe-d45994-1f272d-e9f1ed?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