Color

#e9b196

#e9b196
hex#e9b196
rgbrgb(233, 177, 150)
hslhsl(20, 65%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.805 0.075 46.9)
Closest name: Dusty Rose (#dcae96)Relative luminance 0.5097

Colors that go with #e9b196

Charcoal, Lilac and Deep Sky 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.

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#96cde9

#e996a4 · #e9db96

#96e9b1 · #b196e9

Split-complementary

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#96e9db · #96a4e9

#a4e996 · #96cde9 · #db96e9

Contrast

#e9b196 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.88:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #bd5a28 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #8b421d as the text (7.25:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.51:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.04:1)
Aaon black
11.19:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e9b196 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Fonts for this mood

#e9b196 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e9b196
live endpoint

Point 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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #e9b196 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e9b196-c4ae9c-62cbbb-2d2a1f-f1e9eb?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md