Color

#e9cd96

#e9cd96
hex#e9cd96
rgbrgb(233, 205, 150)
hslhsl(40, 65%, 75%)
oklchoklch(0.859 0.078 83.9)
Closest name: Ancestral Gold (#ddcda6)Relative luminance 0.6319

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

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#96b1e9

#e9a496 · #dbe996

#96e9cd · #cd96e9

Split-complementary

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#96dbe9 · #a496e9

#96e9a4 · #96b1e9 · #e996db

Contrast

#e9cd96 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
1.54:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #977020 as the text (4.51:1)
  • AAA: use #725418 as the text (7.01:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #595959 (4.55:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (7.05:1)
Aaon black
13.64:1passpasspassPasses 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 #e9cd96 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

Fonts for this mood

#e9cd96 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:

mcpConnect your agent — build around #e9cd96
live endpoint

Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — generate_palette, check_contrast, analyze_color — read-only, no key. Every palette it proposes comes with a /palettes/new/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back.

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

analyze #e9cd96 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/e9cd96-c4bb9c-62b8cb-2c2d1f-f1ebe9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md