Coffee Bar
Open in tool →Espresso and caramel: a dark-roast palette that photographs latte art beautifully.
Color
#eee9dd
#eee9dd
hex
#eee9ddrgb
rgb(238, 233, 221)hsl
hsl(42, 33%, 90%)oklch
oklch(0.935 0.017 88)Closest name: A Smell of Bakery (#f3e9d9)Relative luminance 0.8168
Colors that go with #eee9dd
Charcoal, Amber and 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 text near-black that reads cleanly against #eee9dd without the hard edge of pure #000.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #eee9dd in 17 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped37 real palettes, including Dropbox's brand system and Binance's brand system put Blue beside #eee9dd, as the accent.
Blue Violet #8a2be2
shippedBlue Violet is paired with #eee9dd in 11 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 #eee9dd, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped5 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #eee9dd, as the accent.
Burgundy #800020
shipped4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Heinz's brand system put Burgundy beside #eee9dd, as the lead colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #eee9dd in 6 real palettes, including Coffee Bar and Kiln, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #eee9dd
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #eee9dd as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 17.34:1 | 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 #eee9dd as the background.
Brands using this color
Palettes built around it
Chalkboard
Open in tool →Slate green with chalk cream and a coral — nostalgic without being twee.
Trailhead
Open in tool →Rust, pine and sun — high-visibility earth tones that read at a distance and on a trail sign.
Forest Floor
Open in tool →Moss and bark with a mushroom-cap amber — grounded and quiet, made for long-form nature content.
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.
Ember
Open in tool →Flame orange on charcoal — the sports and energy palette; one accent yellow for stats and highlights.
Woodsmoke
Open in tool →Amber and oxblood on smoky brown — a fireside dark mode that photographs whisky, leather and wool.
Bramble
Open in tool →Blackberry and bark with a wheat highlight on a plum-black surface — late-autumn, quiet, slightly gothic.
Kiln
Open in tool →Fired clay and ash on a dark umber — the earthy dark mode; warm enough that the dark surface reads as material, not void.
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.
Typewriter
Open in tool →Ink-black and ribbon-red on manila — the correspondence palette; all the vintage comes from the paper colour.
Fireside
Open in tool →Cranberry, pine and brass on a charcoal night — the holiday palette without the clichés, because the surface is cold.
Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Fonts for this mood
#eee9dd reads as warm, muted, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #eee9dd
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 #eee9dd and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/eee9dd-c4bc9c-62b4cb-2b2d1f-f1ebe9?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