Mid-Century
Open in tool →Tangerine, teal and mustard on cream — the 1960s lounge trio, one of the few retro palettes with real hue contrast.
Color
#ecf4dd
#ecf4dd
hex
#ecf4ddrgb
rgb(236, 244, 221)hsl
hsl(81, 51%, 91%)oklch
oklch(0.955 0.031 122.6)Closest name: Futon (#edf6db)Relative luminance 0.8775
Colors that go with #ecf4dd
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 #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #ecf4dd: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #ecf4dd on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Plum #dda0dd
split-complementshippedPlum is a split-complement of #ecf4dd: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #ecf4dd's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
triadicshippedSky Blue completes a triad with #ecf4dd — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Blue #0000ff
shipped47 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #ecf4dd, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #ecf4dd in 12 real palettes, including Gemstone and ClickUp's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #ecf4dd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #ecf4dd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.13:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 18.55:1 | 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 #ecf4dd 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
#ecf4dd reads as light, clean. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #ecf4dd
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 #ecf4dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/ecf4dd-b1bea2-4e62df-222d1f-f1f0e9?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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