Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Color
#e9e8cd
#e9e8cd
hex
#e9e8cdrgb
rgb(233, 232, 205)hsl
hsl(58, 39%, 86%)oklch
oklch(0.925 0.036 105.3)Closest name: Homoeopathic Mint (#e5ead8)Relative luminance 0.7944
Colors that go with #e9e8cd
Charcoal, Lilac and Sand 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 #e9e8cd: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #e9e8cd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #e9e8cd's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #e9e8cd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #e9e8cd in 17 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped37 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #e9e8cd, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #e9e8cd in 11 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped7 real palettes, including Estate and Blush put Blush Pink beside #e9e8cd, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #e9e8cd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #e9e8cd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.24:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.89:1 | 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 #e9e8cd as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Fonts for this mood
#e9e8cd reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #e9e8cd
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 #e9e8cd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/e9e8cd-bcbea2-4e99df-282d1f-f1ede9?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