Color

#e9b396

#e9b396
hex#e9b396
rgbrgb(233, 179, 150)
hslhsl(21, 65%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.809 0.075 49.5)
Closest name: Dusty Rose (#dcae96)Relative luminance 0.5177

Colors that go with #e9b396

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 →

#96cce9

#e996a2 · #e9dc96

#96e9b3 · #b396e9

Split-complementary

Open in tool →

#96e9dc · #96a2e9

#a2e996 · #96cce9 · #dc96e9

Contrast

#e9b396 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.85:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #b95a27 as the text (4.61:1)
  • AAA: use #8b441d as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #4d4d4d (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #303030 (7.14:1)
Aaon black
11.35:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e9b396 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

#e9b396 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e9b396
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 #e9b396 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e9b396-c4af9c-62cbbd-2d2a1f-f1e9ea?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md