Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#e9c296
#e9c296
hex
#e9c296rgb
rgb(233, 194, 150)hsl
hsl(32, 65%, 75%)oklch
oklch(0.837 0.073 69.9)Closest name: Baba Ganoush (#eebb88)Relative luminance 0.5811
Colors that go with #e9c296
Charcoal, Lilac and 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #e9c296: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #e9c296: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #e9c296 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including League of Legends's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #e9c296, as the supporting colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #e9c296: 5 real palettes, including Coastal and Estate, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #e9c296, as that palette's text colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
shippedDesigners have shipped Cornflower Blue with #e9c296: 6 real palettes, including Webflow's brand system and NBA's brand system, as the accent.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #e9c296 in 7 real palettes, including Cartier's brand system and Casper Sleep's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #e9c296
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e9c296 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.66:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 12.62:1 | 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 #e9c296 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#e9c296 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e9c296
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 #e9c296 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e9c296-c4b69c-62c5cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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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