Still Water
Open in tool →Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Color
#ead5bdrgb(234, 213, 189)hsl(32, 52%, 83%)oklch(0.884 0.04 71)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 is the body-text near-black for #ead5bd: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac is a split-complement of #ead5bd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand is #ead5bd's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue sits directly opposite #ead5bd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber is paired with #ead5bd in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
6 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #ead5bd, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #ead5bd, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #ead5bd: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
| #ead5bd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.42:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.75:1 | 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 #ead5bd as the background.
#ead5bd reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
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.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #ead5bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ead5bd-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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