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
#f0d5b2rgb(240, 213, 178)hsl(34, 67%, 82%)oklch(0.887 0.055 74.2)Charcoal, Lilac and Sky 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 is the body-text near-black for #f0d5b2: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac is a split-complement of #f0d5b2: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Sky Blue sits directly opposite #f0d5b2 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 #f0d5b2 in 6 real palettes, including Ember and Trailhead, as the accent.
5 real palettes, including Binance's brand system and Dropbox's brand system put Blue beside #f0d5b2, as the accent.
4 real palettes, including Woodsmoke and Typewriter put Brown beside #f0d5b2, as the accent.
Designers have shipped Cadet Blue with #f0d5b2: 7 real palettes, including Estate and Coastal, as the supporting colour.
Designers have shipped Cobalt Blue with #f0d5b2: 4 real palettes, including Glacier and Blue Mono, as the accent.
| #f0d5b2 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.41:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 14.87:1 | 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 #f0d5b2 as the background.
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
#f0d5b2 reads as warm, vivid, light. 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 #f0d5b2 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/f0d5b2-c4b79c-62c2cb-2d2d1f-f1eae9?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