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
#efd1b9
#efd1b9
hex
#efd1b9rgb
rgb(239, 209, 185)hsl
hsl(27, 63%, 83%)oklch
oklch(0.88 0.047 60.8)Closest name: Apricot Freeze (#f3cfb7)Relative luminance 0.6745
Colors that go with #efd1b9
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 #efd1b9: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #efd1b9: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sand #c2b280
analogousshippedSand is #efd1b9's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Sky Blue #87ceeb
complementaryshippedSky Blue sits directly opposite #efd1b9 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Amber #ffbf00
shippedAmber is paired with #efd1b9 in 6 real palettes, including Blueprint and Ember, as the accent.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #efd1b9, as the accent.
Brown #a52a2a
shipped4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Velvet put Brown beside #efd1b9, as the accent.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
shippedDesigners have shipped Cadet Blue with #efd1b9: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #efd1b9
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #efd1b9 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.45:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.49:1 | 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 #efd1b9 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
#efd1b9 reads as warm, vivid, light. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
mcpConnect your agent — build around #efd1b9
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 #efd1b9 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/efd1b9-c4b39c-62cbc7-2d2c1f-f1e9ea?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