Forest Floor
Open in tool →Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.
Color
#e9e5ce
#e9e5ce
hex
#e9e5cergb
rgb(233, 229, 206)hsl
hsl(51, 38%, 86%)oklch
oklch(0.919 0.031 98.9)Closest name: Ancient Scroll (#f0e4d1)Relative luminance 0.7782
Colors that go with #e9e5ce
Charcoal, Lilac and Plum 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 #e9e5ce: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #e9e5ce on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Plum #dda0dd
triadicshippedPlum completes a triad with #e9e5ce — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #e9e5ce's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
split-complementshippedSky Blue is a split-complement of #e9e5ce: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e9e5ce in 21 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #e9e5ce, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #e9e5ce in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #e9e5ce
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e9e5ce as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.27:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.56:1 | 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 #e9e5ce as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#e9e5ce reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e9e5ce
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 #e9e5ce and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e9e5ce-c4c29c-4eaadf-292d1f-f1ece9?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