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
#ebd0bc
#ebd0bc
hex
#ebd0bcrgb
rgb(235, 208, 188)hsl
hsl(26, 54%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.875 0.041 58.7)Closest name: Apricot Freeze (#f3cfb7)Relative luminance 0.664
Colors that go with #ebd0bc
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 #ebd0bc: 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 #ebd0bc: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #ebd0bc's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #ebd0bc on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ebd0bc in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #ebd0bc, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #ebd0bc, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #ebd0bc: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ebd0bc
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ebd0bc as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.47:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.28:1 | 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 #ebd0bc 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
#ebd0bc reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ebd0bc
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 #ebd0bc and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ebd0bc-c4b29c-62cbc5-2d2b1f-f1e9ea?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