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.
Color
#ebecd0rgb(235, 236, 208)hsl(62, 42%, 87%)oklch(0.935 0.037 108.8)Charcoal, Lilac and Plum 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 #ebecd0: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac sits directly opposite #ebecd0 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Plum is a split-complement of #ebecd0: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand is #ebecd0's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue completes a triad with #ebecd0 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Amber is paired with #ebecd0 in 21 real palettes, including Trailhead and Ember, as the accent.
47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #ebecd0, as the accent.
Blue Violet is paired with #ebecd0 in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
| #ebecd0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.2:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.44:1 | 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 #ebecd0 as the background.
#ebecd0 reads as 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 #ebecd0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ebecd0-babea2-4e8fdf-272d1f-f1eee9?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