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
#ecd3c0rgb(236, 211, 192)hsl(26, 54%, 84%)oklch(0.883 0.038 59.5)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 #ecd3c0: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac is a split-complement of #ecd3c0: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand is #ecd3c0'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 #ecd3c0 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 #ecd3c0 in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #ecd3c0, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #ecd3c0, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #ecd3c0: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Dusk, as the supporting colour.
| #ecd3c0 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.43:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.65:1 | 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 #ecd3c0 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Dusty teal and mist with a sand accent — low chroma, low contrast between colours, high contrast for text: the recipe for calm.
Burgundy, gold and a blush on warm white — the evening wedding set; burgundy carries the formality, blush the softness.
#ecd3c0 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 #ecd3c0 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/ecd3c0-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.
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