Forest Floor
Open in tool →Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.
Color
#ebe8d0
#ebe8d0
hex
#ebe8d0rgb
rgb(235, 232, 208)hsl
hsl(53, 40%, 87%)oklch
oklch(0.927 0.032 101.2)Closest name: Homoeopathic Mint (#e5ead8)Relative luminance 0.7993
Colors that go with #ebe8d0
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 #ebe8d0: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #ebe8d0 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 #ebe8d0'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 #ebe8d0: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #ebe8d0 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 #ebe8d0, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #ebe8d0 in 12 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 #ebe8d0, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #ebe8d0
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ebe8d0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.24:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 16.99:1 | 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 #ebe8d0 as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Midnight Luxe
Open in tool →Champagne gold on ink-navy with a violet undertone — hotels and spirits use it because it reads expensive at any size.
Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Darkroom
Open in tool →Sepia, faded ochre and a teal shadow on aged paper — the photograph-in-a-drawer palette, tuned so it still passes AA.
Fonts for this mood
#ebe8d0 reads as warm, light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ebe8d0
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 #ebe8d0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ebe8d0-c4c49c-4ea5df-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