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
#ebd1bd
#ebd1bd
hex
#ebd1bdrgb
rgb(235, 209, 189)hsl
hsl(26, 53%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.877 0.04 59.8)Closest name: Almond Brittle (#e5d3b9)Relative luminance 0.6694
Colors that go with #ebd1bd
Charcoal, Lilac and Sky Blue 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 #ebd1bd: 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 #ebd1bd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #ebd1bd 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 #ebd1bd in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #ebd1bd in 4 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Brown #a52a2a
shippedBrown is paired with #ebd1bd in 4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedCadet Blue is paired with #ebd1bd in 7 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Cobalt Blue #0047ab
shippedCobalt Blue is paired with #ebd1bd in 4 real palettes, including Blue Mono and Oreo's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #ebd1bd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ebd1bd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.46:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.39:1 | 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 #ebd1bd 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
#ebd1bd reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ebd1bd
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 #ebd1bd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ebd1bd-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